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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...fight for Uruguayan wool in Boston and Uruguayan beef in Chicago," announced President Luis Batlle Berres in Montevideo last week. "I'm going to converse, discuss and fight in a friendly way to defend Uruguayan interests." Thereupon, Batlle Berres and his wife took off for a twelve-day state visit to the U.S., at the special invitation of President Eisenhower. The itinerary was loaded with wreath-layings, state dinners, speeches and sightseeing. But President Batlle (pronounced Bat-zhay) Berres took his finance minister with him, and some serious talk on economic matters-perhaps even U.S. loans-was clearly expectable...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: URUGUAY: State Visit | 12/12/1955 | See Source »

During the debate another Harvard trio will defend the affirmative of the same topic at New Haven. They are John B. Hermanson '58, Taylor J. Smith '56, and William C. Boyden...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Judges Watch Harvard-Yale Debate on TV | 12/10/1955 | See Source »

...HAVEN, Conn. (Special to the CRIMSON)--With police guarding against a threat to break up the meeting, an overflow crowd of 800 heard Eugene Cook, attorney-general of Georgia, defend the "Southern View" of segregation, at the Yale Law School last night...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Protested Pro-Segregation Speech Draws Police Protection at Yale | 12/9/1955 | See Source »

...produced white birds, black birds, blue birds, and red birds, and they do not roost on the same limb or use the same nest." With the Constitution and God on his side, and Abraham Lincoln's "true views" thrown in for good measure, Talmadge is pretty well equipped to defend his sovereign state of Georgia against innovations...

Author: By George H. Watson jr., | Title: Mr. Talmadge's Anathema | 12/6/1955 | See Source »

...Baptists. When two Baptists were mobbed and brought to trial for disturbing the peace ("They cannot meet a man upon the road," said the prosecuting attorney, "but they must ram a text of scripture down his throat!") a young Episcopal lawyer named Patrick Henry rode 50 miles to defend them...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: The Oldtime Religion | 12/5/1955 | See Source »

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