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...International Council of Christian Churches in Amsterdam, 1948, Geneva, 1950; the conferences and struggle in Buenos Aires, Argentina, July 1949, and Bangkok, Siam, 1949; the forthcoming Pan-American Evangelical Conference in Sao Paulo, Brazil, July 16-24, 1951; and the Conference of Christian Churches of Asia, Manila, Philippines...
Ambassador O'Dwyer was left simmering gently in his own juices. He appeared before a New York grand jury, signed a waiver of immunity, took the oath, and flatly denied that Crane had ever given him any money, let alone $10,000 in a red manila envelope. Despite his denial, his reputation had been badly smudged. Washington hummed with rumors that he would presently be "nudged" into doing the gentlemanly thing-resigning his ambassadorship as gracefully as possible...
...Carmen Nicholson Gispert had known all along that her husband Francis Gispert was risking his life by helping Father Walter B. Hogan to break the labor monopoly of Manila's waterfont held by the racketeering Union de Obreros Estivadores de Filipino, (TIME, March 12). After Gispert was shot dead on March i, Mrs. Gispert aided police in tracking down her husband's killer, a 34-year-old waterfront tough named Arturo de los Santos y Esteban...
...Manila police said that Johnny was John Montgomery, Philippine-born, U.S.-naturalized president of a U.O.E.F. branch. Gispert had accused him of padding a payroll by 47,000 pesos. Picked up next day, Montgomery said: "I don't know what this is all about." With Santos, he will go on trial this week. Fearing an upsurge of waterfront violence, police guarded the Gispert home day & night, while Mrs. Gispert and her children remained indoors. Said Father Hogan: "The U.O.E.F. is now fighting for its very life...
High Road & Low. The A.W.U. is a new waterfront organization sponsored by a burly Jesuit priest named Walter B. Hogan. Philadelphia-born Father Hogan was in the Philippines before the war as a teacher. In 1946 he was sent back to found the Ateneo de Manila's Institute of Social Order, to promote Catholic labor unionism. An outspoken opponent of Manila's big business bosses, whom he accuses of exploiting the workers, Hogan won labor's respect last year when he walked a picket line in the strike of ground personnel against Philippine Air Lines, owned...