Word: legalization
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...legal government of the Cameroons is concerned, the UPC is a Communist-front party that aims to establish by force a Marxist "popular republic" in the Cameroons. Most of its leaders, including Um Nyobe and Félix Moumié, have been indoctrinated in Communist countries. I have a copy of a letter written some years ago by Moumié to Molotov (when he was Foreign Minister), in which Moumié admits that he is a Communist. Like all Communist-front parties, the UPC poses as a truly democratic party fighting "colonial suppression," but in fact its methods are totalitarian...
...businessmen are laying out factories, hotels, lawns, streets and truck gardens with assembly-line speed. The citizens of Baja California (estimated pop. 550,000) proudly argue that the new state's standard of living is Mexico's best, a boast bolstered by the fact that its minimum legal wage is the country's highest...
...will be razed to make room for a new, antiseptic office building. The liabilities of the Downstairs Room, a dark, crowded cellar on Manhattan's Sixth Avenue, are impressive even at a time when small informal nightspots are cashing in (TIME. May 27). What brings full basements (legal limit: 80 customers) to the Downstairs these nights is a small, eccentric troupe of humorists who put on one of Manhattan's first successful nightclub song-and-satire revues in 15 years, recalling the Village Vanguard's famed Revuers, with Judy Holliday...
...Sniffing out Charlie Wilson's plan to abolish the Army's Veterinary Corps in 1956, the Journal stayed the execution by pointing out that Congress alone has the legal authority for such action...
...James F. Murray Jr., was elected in Jersey City last May, one of its first aims was to get revenge on the Jersey Journal (circ. 101,162), which had editorially supported an opposition slate hand-picked by Democratic Boss John V. Kenny. Murray's men transferred all city legal advertising to the rival Hudson Dispatch (circ. 58,037), refused to give out any information to Journal newsmen (TIME, June 3), even scheduled public meetings so that major stories would break too late for the evening Journal but in time for the morning Dispatch...