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...junta Independent Electoral Front (F.E.I.) was pitted against a pair of opposition parties, the Social Christian COPEI and the leftish Democratic Republican Union (U.R.D.). Bossed by owlish Colonel Marcos Perez Jimenez, the junta harassed the opposition, jailed its leaders, censored its press. COPEI and U.R.D. reluctantly entered the race in hope of getting a few seats...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: VENEZUELA: Election | 12/8/1952 | See Source »

...earned his first notoriety as a mere pink, nobody minded too much. Like a well-cast stock actor clothed in Episcopal gaiters, his shining pate tonsured by nature and surrounded by a chaplet of purest white hair, Dr. Johnson looked the very picture of pious benignity, and his mildly leftish pronouncements were not too unfashionable at the time. The dean let it be known that he had started life as a mill hand at 13 shillings a week. He never bothered to tell them that his father owned the factory he worked in or that he rested nightly from...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: GREAT BRITAIN: The Very Rev. Red | 7/21/1952 | See Source »

...psychological ground swell in our direction," and he hopes not only to ride it but to help influence it. In the '30s, when Chamberlain was a young stalwart of the left wing, he was well aware of the force exerted on middle-of-the-roaders by the leftish press. "We are now trying," says Rightist Chamberlain, "to pull the middle-of-the-road back to the right." Thus far the Freeman's pull has been hard, but uneven. The magazine has pointed out why the Administration's weak foreign policy has failed more often than...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: Pull to the Right | 3/31/1952 | See Source »

...energetic reorganization, inspired by the Communists, was "the most profoundly religious Christian experience I have ever been through." He said so in a letter to the Rev. William Howard Melish, Brooklyn Episcopalian and great & good friend of Soviet Russia. The letter turned up in succession in 1) the leftish Churchman and 2) Soviet Russia Today...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: Return of a Missionary | 2/4/1952 | See Source »

...John B. Walthour, a Low Churchman, Bishop of Atlanta, and Donald H. V. Hallock, a High Churchman, Bishop-Coadjutor of Milwaukee. Their second story was an impartial review of the stalemate between Long Island's Bishop James P. DeWolfe (High) and the Rev. William Howard Melish (Low and Leftish-see above), whose disputed rectorship is still one of the church's hot potatoes...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: Aim: Unity | 2/4/1952 | See Source »

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