Word: establishments
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...rumors and lesser legends arose to pique the imagination with the suggestion that Hitler was alive and biding his time for reconquest; he was hiding out in Argentina, the mountains of Bavaria, the Peruvian Andes. The probate courts of West Germany, seeking to settle Hitler's estate, could establish no satisfying proof that the man was dead...
...government was attempting to establish the subcommittee's authority to ask the questions Kamin refused to answer in January 1954. Assistant U.S. Attorney John M. Harrington, Jr. introduced documents on the McCarthy subcommittee's history and asked the Senator and Cohn to describe the events which led up to Kamin's being called to testify...
Questions Bartlett asked Cohn tried to establish that the subcommittee possessed very little written material about Kamin before it called him. Cohn and McCarthy relied on information provided by their staff-director, Francis P. Carr...
...headquarters of some 50 organizations. Although the raids were made under the Suppression of Communism Act, their real purpose was betrayed by the identities of the searched. The majority, like Father Huddleston, were simply open and avowed opponents of Prime Minister Strydom's apartheid policy, which seeks to establish absolute white supremacy in a country where whites are outnumbered four to one. Although the police committed many of the stupidities made familiar in other mass raids (seized from private libraries as possible evidence: Negley Parson's The Way of a Transgressor; Dostoevsky's Crime and Punishment), they...
...Manhattan's Jewish Theological Seminary, headquarters of Conservative Judaism, announced plans to raise $32 million over a ten-year period to establish a Human Brotherhood Center at the seminary, with branches in Los Angeles and Jerusalem. Curriculum of the new center's Institute for Religious and Social Studies will include the areas of belief common to Protestants, Catholics and Jews...