Word: ledger
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Seams of McCarthyism. At that point the McCarthyite Newark Star-Ledger took over. Under a six-column headline, hard by a two-column picture of a smiling Joe McCarthy, the Star-Ledger reported that the "material" concerned Case's sister Adelaide. The newspaper said that former Communist Bella V. Dodd remembered Adelaide Case "as an active member of several Communist-front groups I helped organize." When Clifford Case saw the story, he canceled all other campaign activities to prepare his reply to this "gutter politics...
...Decter point out, gave McCarthy a solid runway for his take-off as a Communist fighter in 1950. They grant that the furor caused by McCarthy did help to bring needed attention to the problem of Communist infiltration. But at about that point, the credit side of their McCarthy ledger begins to go blank...
...20th century, it is condemned to anachronism by the urgent drive of black man and yellow man to be free. But not all empires are doomed to sudden extinction. Britain's conspicuously has proven its ability to learn from defeat, to loosen the bonds forged by gunboat and ledger, and to command the loyalty of many of its subjects through freedom instead of force...
Hawkins can butterfly the 100 in 59.6, or at least he did at the NCAA's last year. But if he can't push himself to that speed or better this weekend, he'll be pushed out of competition. Bob Clemens of Illinois, Bob Van Heyde and Bon Ledger of Ohio State, and Mike Delaney from the U. of Michigan can all shade...
...General" did not lose $3,000. How much it lost or made is no one's business but the Theatre Group's. The New York stage manager mentioned is imaginary. Mr. Lukas' estimate of $3,000 is at least 600 percent off the mark on either side of the ledger...