Word: label
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...describe Kirkland House as the "spirit" House is to do it an injustice. Unfortunately, some House Committeemen would like to apply the label to Kirkland. Happily, the label doesn't stick...
...there can be no doubt about that-but also he puzzles some of us. To what party does he belong? Is he a hidden satellite of the Democratic Party, to which he is furnishing so much material for quiet mirth? It does not seem that his Republican label can be stuck on very tightly when, by intention or through ignorance, he is doing his best to shatter the party whose label he wears. He no longer claims or wants any support from the Communist fringe. What is his party affiliation? One must conclude that his is a one-man party...
...Powell Septet (Vanguard LP). A classical label gives jazz the hi-fi treatment, with first-rate results. Seven top jazzmen play as if for themselves, turn out some of today's finest group improvisations. Notable for a long (7 min.), brooding I Must Have That Man, featuring Buck Clayton's trumpet...
Local 301's turnabout was the result of increasing pressure on it. Tagged publicly with the Communist label, U.E. recently has lost out in almost every representation election held in new General Electric plants. Dissent and dissatisfaction with its party-line policies have spread among its own rank & file. Said one shop steward: "For years my friends have thought I was a Communist because 1 read the U.E. News." When six members of Local 301 refused to talk about their Red connections before the McCarthy committee last month, other members seized the moment to circulate petitions barring any such...
...overzealous amateur "untrained in the use of proper investigative techniques, may constitute a serious menace to civil rights . . . . Patriotism and zeal cannot compensate for a lack of detailed, technical knowledge . . . . The work of the vigilante too often deserves the label "Witch Hunt"; the work of the fifth columnist needs no label. Let us beware of both." J. EDGAR HOOVER...