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...York Herald Tribune of Communist plans to infiltrate U.S. church groups. A full inside page is devoted to the problems of Protestants in Europe. The relief needs of European children are dramatized in a page of photographs, and the World also boasts two exclusive comic strips: Lucy Lou, the Kangaroo ("Can jump across the fence, can you?") and Rusty Gates and His Little U.N. Gang...
...indignant public statement they charged that many of the victims had no trials and had been shot without the consent of President Syngman Rhee or other civil officials. The clergymen appealed to the U.N. Commission in Korea to prevent any more "kangaroo court" executions...
...knows that Council is an intelligent and honest body. It would be happy to put its case in Council's hands. But no group can be expected to reach a fair decision after listening to one side of the story for three hours in a closed-door hush-hush kangaroo-court trial...
...Curves & Kangaroos. Gossard was founded on a corset-string in 1900 by a Chicago buttons & bows dealer named Henry Williamson Gossard. At the time, corsets were laced from the rear and the agonized, swaybacked "Kangaroo figure" of the Gibson Girl was the vogue. In Paris, Gossard bought a dozen corsets which were not only straight and more comfortable than U.S. models, but which laced conveniently up the front (thus obviating the need for a maid or husband at the other end of the drawstrings...
Travis denied the charges, declared that the hearing was a "kangaroo court." But C.I.O. President Philip Murray gave him short shrift. He threw Mine-Mill out of the C.I.O. and, after similar bills of particulars, threw out the Office and Professional Workers, the Food, Tobacco and Agricultural Workers, the Public Workers. With the big United Electrical Workers and the Farm Equipment Workers already purged (TIME, Nov. 14), Murray had only a few more corners to clean: Harry Bridges' Longshoremen's union, the Marine Cooks' & Stewards', the Fishermen, the Fur and Leather Workers, the Furniture Workers...