Word: heard
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...hear them tell about it back home, nothing is more odious to the governors of the several states than the concentration of power in Washington. But last week, gathered at historic Williamsburg, Va. for the 49th annual Governors' Conference, they heard President Eisenhower propose that the Federal Government should relinquish some of its responsibilities in favor of the states. The governors reacted as though he were trying to hand them a sockful of scorpions...
...resolution, but only after the association's president. New Hampshire's Attorney General Louis Wyman (whose anti-subversive activities had just been rebuked by the Supreme Court in the case of sometime University of New Hampshire Lecturer Paul Sweezy), had given the Supreme Court a scorching rarely heard north of Mason and Dixon. The Supreme Court, cried Wyman, had "set the U.S. back 25 years in its attempt to make certain that those loyal to a foreign power cannot create another Trojan horse here." The U.S. Constitution, said Wyman, had been "tortured out of all rational historical proportion...
...overlooked an important point: if the heavy Negro population of Tuskegee and surrounding Macon County provides a political hazard, it also provides the principal economic income of Tuskegee's merchants. In the African Methodist Episcopal Zion Church last week, a stomping, whistling crowd of 2,900 Negroes heard Professor Charles G. Gomillion, 57, dean of students at the institute and president of the Tuskegee Civic Association, lay out a strategy for fighting back without violence. "We will buy goods and services only from those who will recognize us as first-class citizens." Then, sounding a note reminiscent of Montgomery...
...last October the quiet revolution came to Morawice. The people of the village heard newly appointed Party Secretary Wladyslaw Gomulka say on the radio that no more money would be spent subsidizing collectives. Says Zofia Szczygiel: "Everybody out in the fields threw down their tools and went home for a drink of vodka. Then they went and got their tools again and started marking out their claims to private property." A village committee soon ironed out the boundary disputes, and by the time Gomulka got around to acknowledging the end of forced collectivization, Victoria had ceased to exist...
Accustomed to moving surely in countries where Catholicism's dominance is unchallenged, but more cautiously elsewhere, the church has lately been heard with increasing force on the old subject of the church and socialism. In recent weeks, Catholic functionaries have come to the aid of the party in three countries...