Word: disbands
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...resolved the issue. Furcolo, too, was caught in a party fight recently, but the division turned out to be native only to a political off-year. Many liberal Democrats, nonetheless, still harbor resentment toward Furcolo for his conduct before a 1954 A.D.A. dinner when he told that organization to disband as a detriment to the candidacy of the Democrats it endorses...
...concluded Nate Twining, the U.S. is "not going to disband them again until we have assurances that it can be done under effective international control and inspection." For an airman's airman, with no pretense of being a politician, he had said a mouthful...
...Archbishop Joseph F. Rummel, who has called segregation "morally wrong and sinful," allowed his diocesan newspaper to talk of excommunication for Catholics who block his policy of church and school integration. One organization of segregationist Catholic laymen is appealing to Rome after having been forced by the archbishop to disband...
Shortly before his 1954 election loss to Saltonstall, Furcolo appeared at a convention of the Americans for Democratic Action and told that group it should disband. Before then he had been a loyal supporter of the ADA's work...
Dying Words. The club carried on without question of its mission until 1948, when, in the midst of the Red conquest of China's mainland, the worried members met to consider whether or not they should disband. Lew Kay, 62, an American of Chinese parentage and the first Chinese graduate of the University of Washington (1909), rose to plead for going on. "Of course many fellow Americans find it difficult to grasp what is happening in China today," he said. "All the more reason why we, who know the importance of free China, should keep up our work...