Word: hunts
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Department of State has never forgiven ex-Deputy Under Secretary John Peurifoy (now U.S. Ambassador to Greece) for inadvertently telling a congressional committee, in 1950, that 91 employees investigated in State were not Communists, just homosexuals. Last week the published hearings of a House subcommittee disclosed that the hunt was on: in the 13 months ending last January, State fired 126 out of its 30,000 employees as identifiable homosexuals...
...empty, rolling sand hills of northwest Nebraska, where most roads are simply twin ruts and a 10,000-acre ranch is small, some cattlemen hunt down predatory coyotes with their airplanes. When a 32-year-old ranch hand named Elaine Ellis ran wild with a shotgun and a revolver one night last week, he got the same treatment...
...banks, trust companies and brokers this week went a special SEC report on a hunt for a "pot of gold." In the pot, said SEC Chairman Donald Cook, is about $25 million. It is made up of stock in 200 corporations now being reorganized. Unless the stock is turned in on new stock, said SEC, holders will lose their investment...
Earsplitting Indictment. Tiger, in China's current Communist jargon, means corrupt capitalist. But last week, as Red China's tiger hunt (TIME, March 17) screamed into new heights of shrill persecution, the quarry seemed less like vicious beasts of the jungle than treed and terrified house-cats. Chinese Communism has developed a new weapon to rout out it's bourgeois enemies, a weapon unthought of by less imaginative dictatorships: trial by sound-truck. Like baying hounds at the foot of a tree, Communism's sound-trucks last week planted themselves in the streets outside of tradesmen...
...N.A.M. has been able to attract several well-informed and smooth writers to its columns. Dr. Herold C. Hunt, general superintendent of Chicago's public schools has written an incisive account of the crisis in public school education. Two General Electric executives are the authors of another excellent article which debunks the roseate notion of automobiles, railroad trains, and electric light bulbs running perpetually on a thimble-full of plutonium. Although these topics have been discussed again and again, U.S.A.'s comment on them is authoritative and interesting...