Word: disbandment
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...rift which existed between the two men. A conflict in personalities and philosophies started several years ago when Kennedy was coming into national prominence and Furcolo was still a Congressman. At that time Furcolo told a gathering of ADA officials that the organization had outlived its usefulness and should disband. The Senator, as well as the ADA, was quite disturbed by this and let Furcolo know about it. Some people feel that Kennedy's subsequent failure to campaign was the cause of Furcolo's defeat in the 1954 Senatorial election...
Nasser is still faced with thunder on the left. Last month, in direct defiance of Nasser's order that his own National Front is the only political party that may operate in Syria, Syrian Communist Chief Khaled Bakdash published an article in Prague proclaiming, "No authority could disband our Communist Party," and ostentatiously returned to Damascus from Czechoslovakia to set up shop again. Since Nasser is not a man to tolerate such defiance, Cairo is guessing that the house-cleaning in Syria is not yet finished...
...spring of 1948, members of this group purchased the Brattle Theatre from the Cambridge Social Union and staged its subsequent productions there. Upon graduation, they formed the Brattle Theatre Company, a professional repertory group that achieved national renown. Unfortunately, it was forced to disband in 1952 owing to an accumulated $35,000 deficit...
...cheerily told the crowd at the airport that, with God's help, all difficulties would be solved. He might be right, but it was up to him. Even as the rebels appealed for recognition by the world's governments, they insisted that they would be happy to disband the minute Sukarno accepted their demands...
...disclosures set off a storm of anti-Moroccan feeling all over Spain. In Madrid, crowds booed Franco's Moors in the streets, greeted their newsreel appearances with noisy catcalls. Reluctantly, Franco gave the order to disband, his faithful Moors...