Word: intentions
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...white audience in the Municipal Auditorium (TIME, April 23). As a warning against similar incidents in Birmingham, Judge Parker imposed on each the maximum six-month jail sentence and $100 fine. Two other white-supremacy fanatics who led the charge against Cole waived preliminary hearings on more serious intent-to-murder charges, must appear before a grand jury...
...Should the American Whig-Cliosophic Society, the oldest student debating society in the U.S., be allowed to hear a speech this week by Convicted Perjurer Alger Hiss? Though unanimously disapproving the invitation, the trustees answered yes by a 26-4 vote. The society, they explained, obviously had no "subversive intent.' Therefore the trustees had decided to "refrain from authoritarian censorship.'' ¶ The University of Illinois announced that it had expelled 23 students for cheating-one for breaking into a professor's room and stealing an accounting exam, two for mimeographing the exam, all three for selling...
...According to the plan, a mob of 150, led by an officer of the North Alabama Citizens' Council, was to have stormed the auditorium and kidnaped Cole. Only the six showed up. So serious was the police view of the affair that two were charged with assault with intent to commit murder, the four others on lesser counts of conspiracy...
...anticonsensus minority in the Republican party, however, was able to play a more effective national role. Although Republican candidates for President, recognizing the general popular support for New Deal measures, vigorously denied any intent to turn back the clock, the old guard was strong enough heavily to color the positions and pronouncements of their party. As a result, the presence of a general agreement on the essentials of public policy in the prewar years was not apparent in the official party positions. On the contrary, in the late 1930's and the early 1940's, just before our entry into...
...beginning, however, the going seems a little rough, mainly because the play is not very funny. Throughout the first half of the comedy, most of the humor is at the expense of the Jew, Shylock, whom the poet conceived as a grasping, vengeful figure intent on exacting his pound of flesh from the Merchant. But director Richard Smithies has wisely chosen not to make Shylock the butt of all the jokes, even though he succeeds only partially in finding funny material elsewhere in the play...