Word: groups
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Memorial plans to distribute the reprints widely throughout the U.S. to state cancer centers, medical schools and libraries, physicians and surgeons and, especially, to laymen who are interested in cancer research. Regarding its emphasis on this last group, a spokesman for the hospital said: "TIME'S story was well done, and it tells the story of cancer effectively and in language the layman can understand. We think that as many laymen as possible ought to read...
...Flynn; nominated by Harry Truman, and confirmed by the 81st Congress-though Kaufman was refused endorsement by the Federal Bar Association of New York, New Jersey and Connecticut and by the Association of the Bar of the City of New York. His appointment had been supported by one group-the New York County Lawyers' Association; the chairman of the judiciary committee of that group was Hiss's lawyer, Lloyd Paul Stryker...
...dressed down his ministers publicly and created a serious cabinet crisis by talking of firing them for a group of "technicians" who would carry out the royal policy. "Responsibilities are in wrong places," he complained. "The head of state is often obliged to sanction decisions in which he has no part...
...name of Nozaka's good friend Mao Tse-tung has been even more effective. With Japan's recovery vitally dependent on China trade, certain businessmen have seen fit to invite Red leaders to Tokyo's swank Industry Club. Osaka manufacturers have formed a Marxist study group and are contributing to party coffers. Out in public, Communist orators shout that China shows Asia's "wave of the future." Party organ Akahata, riding the wave, claims that China trade would gain Japan commercial independence (from the U.S.) and would help overthrow the Yoshida government...
Mencken poured his scorn on U.S. life, its culture and its government. Presidents consorted with "rogues and ignoramuses"; the Senate was "perhaps the windiest and most tedious group of men in Christendom." He decided that "democracy is the art and science of running the circus from the monkey cage," that a pastor is "one employed by the wicked to prove to them by his example that virtue doesn't pay." His targets ranged from the ancient Greeks ("Greek tragedy, that unparalleled bore, is confined almost wholly to actresses who have grown too fat for Ibsen") to chiropractors ("heroic pummeling...