Word: conduction
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Judge Parker went a step farther, declared: "It is a duty I owe the South to commend Nat 'King' Cole for his conduct at, and since, the time of this unfortunate incident." Meanwhile, Negro newspapers were framing no commendations; they blasted Cole roundly for singing to a segregated audience and for declining, on grounds that "I'm an entertainer, not a politician," an invitation to join the N.A.A.C.P. Some Negro nightclubs banned his records from their jukeboxes for the same reasons; in one Harlem establishment they were ceremoniously yanked out and smashed...
...Safe Conduct. At that time few knew the story of how five non-Communist partisans led by one Emanuele Strasserra had disappeared in the Devil's territory late in the war. Moranino insisted that he had had them guided to safety in Switzerland. Then in 1947 the bodies were discovered buried by a mountain road near Moranino's headquarters- and far short of the Swiss border. Moranino changed his tale, said they had been executed as Fascist spies, and shrugged off accusations from the safety of his parliamentary immunity. But the relatives of the murdered men persisted...
Supplying a guide and safe-conduct passes, Moranino sent Strasserra and four other non-Communist partisan leaders off into the mountains for Switzerland. At the trial, the ex-partisan guide admitted that on Moranino's orders, he led the five men along an Alpine road to a brush-covered hillock, where six Moranino men waited. Spotting them, Strasserra cried: "We're friends. We are going to Switzerland." He was still waving his safe-conduct pass and talking when bullets cut him short. Destroying the evidence, the Reds buried their victims hastily beside the road, took their money...
Earlier today, President Harold W. Dodds appealed to students for responsible conduct while national attention is focused on Princeton. "Your capacity for responsibility has been questioned publicly," Dodds told undergraduates. "Your conduct on Wednesday and Thursday evenings will be the answer to the skeptics...
...assumed control of the Alumni Theatre Committee, said then that over $50,000 had been pledged. His last report given to the CRIMSON two weeks ago is that pledges are "coming in very slowly." University officials have indicated that they are trying to obtain one large donor, rather than conduct an all-out campaign. It is understood that in the last year, one prospective donor withdrew his offer at the last minute...