Word: granting
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Tongko also upbraided the U.S. for refusing to grant complete sovereignty to the Philippines over criminal cases involving American military personnel. Because of these injustices, he said, many of his countrymen feel that it "doesn't pay to be a loyal and trusted friend...
...July 25 Brenner (CBS, 9-9:30 p.m.). Detective Lieut. Roy Brenner (Edward Binns), backed by a galpal (Lee Grant), tracks a bookie ring that uses kids as collectors...
...Yankees!" Them, to be more precise, is the 1st Brigade, U.S. Cavalry. Colonel John Wayne commanding, and they are plunging along toward Newton Station in Director John Ford's $5,000,000 screen version of Grierson's Raid through the depths of Confederate territory during Grant's advance on Vicksburg. Summoning all her Southern charm, the proud beauty invites Wayne and his officers to dinner. Making the most of her downfall neckline, she leans low over the harried foe and offers him chicken: "What was yoah preference, thuh laig or thuh breast...
...movie begins with the lynching of a Negro in Memphis. Joe Grant, the victim's brother, grimly decides to get out, and travels north to New Jersey, determined to pass as a white man. The scene changes to a Trenton lush with palm trees, Negro retainers and a hand-kissing aristocracy. Enter Joe. He latches onto a local blonde and takes her swimming, an activity they both enjoy stripped to the waist. Then he switches to a sausage maker's two daughters, seduces one in the bathroom, the other in the bedroom. Soon...
Under federal law, a radio or TV station that grants time to a "legally qualified candidate for any public office" has to grant equal time to his rivals. The same ridiculous law, now under attack by Ike as well as radio and TV stations, bars the station from "censorship" of what candidates say. Back in 1956, WDAY in Fargo, N. Dak. granted equal time to A. C. Townley, independent candidate for U.S. Senator (he lost), and a farmer association attacked in Townley's speech sued WDAY for damages. Ruled the Court, 5 to 4: since WDAY was only doing...