Word: groups
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Pierino was arrested and the prince taken to a hospital, where he is recovering. But the great lord faced other difficulties. The shooting brought forth anti-Torlonia editorials in the Marxist press. This week a group of Christian Democratic deputies proposed that the Fucino acres be expropriated by the government and turned over to the peasants who work them...
Many Formosans want complete independence for their island-to be gained by revolution or any other means. Others talk of "autonomy under a good Chinese government," neither Nationalist nor Communist. A third group favors a U.S. mandate...
Recently, Tokyo moppets made friends with personable young Himansu Neogy, a Calcutta exporter who had taken time off during a business trip to visit the city's schools. They gave him bouquets of flowers, posed with him for group pictures. When Neogy was about to go back to India, they begged him to intercede on their behalf with Prime Minister Nehru to send them an Indian elephant...
...been sounded against the U.S. Military Government for failing to do "something" about Germany's cartels -though hardly anybody knew what the something should be. Last winter, a civilian committee headed by Federal Trade Commissioner Garland Ferguson trotted off to see if the squawking was justified. The group reported that...
Production Code to forestall harsher action by public censors. The pressure group it fears most is the Roman Catholic Legion of Decency ("a C rating for a picture is death"). One speaker (protectively anonymous in the report) said: "[The Legion] is something that Hollywood should have fought and didn't ... for the same reasons that they have never fought anything: they didn't want to stop the flow of film for one week." ¶The U.S. mass audience, even the moviemakers admitted, is more grownup in its tastes than the run of movies are, and would support more...