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...Boss (who roared like a cracked boiler after reading Lillian Smith's best-selling story of miscegenation, Strange Fruit) directed his city commissioners to set up a five-man board to censor literature...
Perhaps the most spectacular gesture of conciliation was made by Russia's cynical, ductile Andrei Vishinsky, who led a five-man Soviet delegation into St. Patrick's Cathedral to attend a Solemn Pontifical Mass for the United Nations on the Feast of Christ the King...
Last week Allah's Brother spoke. The Qashqai and neighboring Bakhtiari tribesmen fought Government forces along 140 miles of the Persian Gulf coast, attacked the port of Bushire, entered the outskirts of Shiraz. Harried Premier Ahmad Gavam sent a five-man mission to the threatened capital to talk peace terms with Nasser Khan's leaders...
...military situation was reflected in the attitude of the Communist negotiators in Nanking. The Communists refused to participate in a five-man committee to discuss a coalition Government (i.e., a national council). Instead they suddenly proposed to discuss a cease-fire order through a three-man committee set up last January, dormant since June and now composed of General George Marshall, Communist Negotiator Chou En-lai and the National Government's General Hsu Yung-chang. By cease-fire the Communists meant the return to Communist control of all territory won by the Government in the past six weeks. They...
...proposed canon was round-faced Rt. Rev. Wallace E. Conkling, Bishop of Chicago. Cried he: "We must recognize human nature but not yield to it ..." The bishops, seeming to agree with Chicago's Conkling, voted 65-to-44 to scrap the report. But that night a special five-man committee worked until 2 a.m. on a new proposal...