Word: disbands
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...long-termer (Neville Brand), present their demands to a state mediator. He arrogantly rejects them. The riot explodes into other cell blocks. The prisoners run berserk in a thoroughly frightening scene of rage in the mass. In the end, the governor signs the prisoners' petition. The rioters disband. The pressure off, the state legislature repudiates the governor's act. Has anything been gained? A little, perhaps; on the other hand, 30 years have been added to the ringleader's sentence...
...Vanden-berg's Vice Chief of Staff, Nate Twining knew the infighting techniques as well as anybody. But when President Eisenhower promoted Twining to Chief of Staff last June, it was Twining's judgment that the long revolution was over, that the time had come to disband the rearguard and let the Air Force prove the inevitable logic of its position by performance...
...would get the typical pep talk with which ADAers exhort each other to do battle with the "forces of reaction." Instead they got a sharp jolt: Democrat Furcolo, who is expected to run for the U.S. Senate next year, as much as told them they should pack up and disband...
After taking this for a while, Furcolo decided he had to squirm out from under this criticism. So in the keynote speech at its annual convention banquet, Furcolo told the ADA to disband. The public thought them pink, he said, and this weakened not only their work but the chances of any Democratic candidate they supported. Things, he confided, would be better for liberals and Democrats if the ADA faded away. And, leaving the convention to choke on its dessert, Furcolo went out to renew his campaign as "the man who repudiated...
...Young Democratic Club and the Liberal Union last night sharply criticized State Treasurer Foster Furcolo for his suggestion Saturday that the Americans for Democratic Action disband because it is "undermining" the Democratic Party...