Word: label
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...local music promoter weighed Szabo's audience appeal, and decided that there might be a market for the Szabo voice. He dreamed up a new record label (Hammerlock), and recorded Szabo in two appropriate songs: Take Me in Your Arms and It's All in the Game. To the accompaniment of gypsy strings, Sandor exudes Danubian charm...
Section Three of the McCarran Law defines "Communist front" organizations so loosely as to include any group that advocates an idea disapproved of by the government. It is difficult to think of any proposal for social reform that has not received the Red label. The McCarran Law spells out the dangerous equation: Change=Communism=Russia. The same equation is apparent in the questions and behavior of Senator Jenner, Congressman Velde, and Senator McCarthy, who joined with Senator McCarran to make his anti-democratic and un-American act into...
...Originally the Committee was set up to determine in advance whether a particular speaker would violate the law, which reads, "during such meetings there shall be no advocracy of the subversion of the government of the United States nor of the State." The Committee's original policy was to label "objectionable" only avowed Communists, and thus keep them from speaking at Michigan. The newer controversial Committee interpretation of "objectionable" speakers was widened and now includes anyone who belongs to organizations on the Attorney General's list...
While Diego was piling up laurels at home, Frida showed her pictures mainly in the U.S. and Europe. Though she had many friends and sold paintings privately, Mexico never gave her a public show. Frida thinks it was because of distaste for her surrealist label. "They thought I was a surrealist, but I wasn't. I never painted dreams. I painted my own reality...
...wine in kegs that Louis Petri quit St. Louis University's medical school to start rolling barrels in his family's San Francisco warehouse. He soon convinced his father that keg distribution was outmoded, launched a program to bottle the company's wine under the Petri label and distribute it nationally. (Today, less than 10% of Petri's output is in bulk.) He also expanded Petri's more profitable sweet wine business while holding on to Petri's dry wine market. By 1945, having learned the business from dirt to decanter, he took over...