Word: islanded
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Also ticketed for deportation this week was Ferdinand Christapher Smith, national secretary of Joe Curran's C.I.O. National Maritime Union. Smith, a Negro, entered the U.S. from Jamaica in 1919. Like Williamson, he was picked up as he left his Manhattan apartment and taken to Ellis Island. He not only advocated violent overthrow of the U.S., said the warrant, but returned from a Mexican trip in 1945 without a visa. Smith's politics were no news to Curran. Only recently Joe had called him a Communist Party cardholder...
...York's Congressman Ellsworth B. Buck, after a visit to Bedloe Island, cried out that the Statue of Liberty "is disgraced and demeaned by the inexcusable neglect and squalor about her," announced that he would seek a congressional appropriation of $750,000 to beautify the grimy grounds around the statue...
...years the Lion flag of Kandy waved defiantly over the Indian Ocean island of Ceylon. Under it the Sinhalese Buddhist kings struggled and connived with invading princes and rival island chieftains for uncertain sovereignty over their huge (25,000 sq. mi.) island of blue mountains, green jungles and yellow sands. Then Ceylon became a British Crown colony, and in 1815 the Lion of Kandy was hauled down to make room for another, more famous member of his species...
Last week, the British Lion was still in Ceylon, but only as a guest. In a Buddhist ceremony in Kandy as old as the island's history, golden-robed chieftains and 100 richly caparisoned elephants (decked in ruby necklaces and white pantaloons) paraded the streets in dressy dignity to celebrate a new independence. Jasmine-decked maidens and bare-breasted Sinhalese youths with bells on their ankles whirled in ancient dances...
John Bull's Other Island (by Bernard Shaw; produced by Richard Aldrich & Richard Myers, in association with Brian Doherty) gave Broadway its first view of Dublin's Gate Theatre. Founded 20 years ago by Actors Hilton Edwards and Micheal MacLiammóir, who are still its heads and headliners, the Gate has grown more popular in Dublin as the once-great Abbey Theatre has grown less so. Though in Manhattan it will offer only Irish plays, in Dublin (unlike the Abbey) it features foreign ones; it has produced the works of O'Neill, Maxwell Anderson, Kaufman & Hart...