Word: keyed
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...instructions, upheld by the Supreme Court in 1951, said that the Smith Act denounced not the "abstract doctrine" of violent overthrow but the "teaching and advocacy of action" in "language reasonably and ordinarily calculated to incite persons to such action." Apparently, to the Supreme Court's mind, the key phrase was "incite to action"-and Judge Mathes had failed...
...Kiss from Achille. Lauro began the Sardinian campaign for his Monarchist candidates by doling out 10,000 Easter eggs and 10,000 parcels of toys. These were followed by 10,000 layettes, 500,000 key cases, 100,000 aprons bearing the rampant lion of the Popular Monarchist Party, and countless babies' bibs inscribed "A Kiss from Lauro." (Of the 800 babies born in Sardinia in the past two months, 103 were christened Achille...
...more than 1,000 plantations. Haiti never recovered. The world's richest colony before the revolution, it is now a poorhouse. Only 23,470 Haitians out of 3,500,000 engage in middle-class occupations. As the economy strangled, politics turned into a business venture, with revolution the key to the treasury...
When he retired six years ago at 77, Big Bill Hutcheson was known as the ruthless dictator of the United Brotherhood of Carpenters and Joiners of America, a key dowel in the U.S. labor movement for more than 30 years. Before his death in 1953 he had bequeathed his claw hammer to his complaisant son Maurice, who finished construction of the union by bringing the membership to 850,000. cut for himself a slot in the loftiest beams of labor leadership-vice president of the A.F.L.-C.I.O., member of the executive council. Last week at 60, Carpenter Maurice Hutcheson dodged...
...Key figure in the Padua trial is 57-year-old Dante Gorreri, a onetime street singer and plumber who is charged with the murder of two Communist women comrades and embezzlement of the "heritage of the Italian state." To put him beyond the reach of the law, the Communists elected him to the Italian Chamber of Deputies, and not until last year, after a long fight, was his parliamentary immunity lifted. On the witness stand at last, big-bellied Dante Gorreri answered almost every question with "I don't know ... I don't remember...