Word: hangings
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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While Sullvan and his "independents" are relying almost entirely on personal appearances at rallies and non-political functions as well as on their own ward organizations, the CCA candidates are forced to hang together to a great extent The people who worked for the referendum petition against the school appointments have carried over into the present campaign and are the base of the organzation. Some candidates who have strong organizations of their own in normally non-CCA wards rely mainly on their own workers, but for the non-incumbents the CCA setup is vital...
...seek power? No, hang it! I may be your President, but I am not the sweeper in this house." Thus snapped Antoine Pinay, when members of his Independent Party pressured him to take on the job of trying to form a new government. Two other Premiers had already tried and failed: Socialist Guy Mollet, representing the biggest bloc (100 seats) among the parties who more or less govern France, and Rene Pleven, whose left-center U.D.S.R. is the smallest (7 seats...
...work of two leading German composer-librettists, Boris Blacher. (Romeo and Juliet, Prussian Fairytale) and Werner Egk (Columbus, Irish Legend). The work was produced with deadpan literalness and conducted by Hermann Scherchen, one of Europe's famed conductors. Nobody in the audience shouted "Shoot the composer!" or "Hang the conductor!" In fact, to Composer Blacher's amazement, a capacity crowd received the work cordially, demanding many curtain calls...
Ever since the U.S. seized General Aniline & Film Corp. as a German enemy asset in 1942, the Justice Department has fought a running battle to hang on to it. Last week the Swiss government, which argues that General Aniline was really controlled by Swiss and other non-enemy interests, asked the United Nations International Court of Justice at The Hague to decide who really owns General Aniline. It is a rich prize: under U.S. stewardship, New York-based General Aniline has grown into a vast chemical and camera-supply (Ansco) empire with assets of $163 million and sales last year...
...effect on other war-weary Algerian Moslems. Now, even should it pass and Bourgès-Maunoury remain in office, the loi-cadre no longer stood as a shadowy promise of a political solution to the rebellion. Instead, it is a document which says that France intends to hang on in Algeria, whatever the rest of the world says...