Word: lininger
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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A White House spokesman explained why Ike is making progress in lining up congressional majorities for future votes. "The major legislation is coming up. We're just telling all our friends that we'd like to have them on the ball team. We're letting them know...
¶ Reversed the 1950 perjury-conspiracy conviction of Harry Bridges, party-lining boss of Pacific Coast longshoremen. The U.S. district court in San Francisco had found Bridges guilty of lying when he told a 1945 naturalization hearing that he was not a Communist. Without passing on Bridges' truthfulness, the...
All the wheels-within-wheels complications of war, love and treachery would have stalled a clumsy novelist. But Novelist Waltari is anything but clumsy. Dramatically and lavishly, he paints in the spectacular background-the campfires of the approaching Turks lining the night horizon, the arrival of their army ("a huge...
CJ Philip Morrison, associate professor of physics at Cornell University, testified that he joined the Young Communist League at 19, moved into the party at 21, quit in 1940 when he was 25. In 1942, Morrison went to work on the top-secret Manhattan Project, which developed the atom bomb...
Stalag 17 (Paramount), the 1951 Broadway hit about a Nazi prison camp, is as rowdily entertaining on the screen as it was on the stage. In the play, Authors Edmund Trzcinski and Donald Devan drew on some of their experiences while they were interned with 40,000 other prisoners of...