Word: defenders
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Armed Services Committee considered the promotion of Brigadier General Ralph Zwicker to major general. On McCarthy's insistence, the committee summoned General Zwicker back from Japan to defend himself on charges made by his old antagonist at the Army-McCarthy hearings of 1954. Gist of the charges: Zwicker had "clearly lied" to the McCarthy investigations subcommittee about the circumstances leading to the promotion of Major Irving Peress, a dental officer accused as a Communist. The committee's decision, reached after a two-day, closed-door session: a unanimous (12-to-0) vote to approve the Zwicker promotion. Editorialized...
...religion, philosophy, and views on life he sums up succinctly: "I'm a Marine." His unshaven stubble, unerring faith in the crops and himself as a Marine, and his heart of gold which sometimes peeps furtively from beneath his unpolished exterior satisfy the role's needs. He must defend Sister Angela, who is all gold, but afraid, and wishing her faith were as solid as Mr. Allison's simple strength...
...might begin by relaxing enforcement of his controversial laws. One conspicuous place where he might start is the case of Kasim Gulek, the Columbia University Ph.D. who is secretary-general of the opposition Republican Party. Gulek missed last week's party congress; he was in Istanbul to defend himself against one of the dozen or more harassing charges the government has brought against him, trying to silence his political speaking...
...Pornography. The producer of Vienna's Annie, Austrian-born U.S. Citizen Marcel Prawy, had already successfully staged Kiss Me, Kate in Vienna (TIME, March 5, 1956). His announcement that he was bringing Annie Oakley and the Wild West to the Danube shore outraged critics. They rushed fiercely to defend the virtue of their Merry Widows, the dignity of their Countess Maritzas and the artistic solvency of their Gypsy Barons. American musicals, said critics, were "pornographic" and not fit for "Kulturstaaten." Furthermore, the government-subsidized Volksoper should be playing native Austrian composers. (Annie's defenders pointed out that native...
...those of Congress, to create something satisfactory. If he considers seventy-two billion a justifiable outlay he need not invite challengers, who will come of their own accord. He should stand by it. In either case he should eventually present a budget each item of which he can sincerely defend...