Word: nixon
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Forty-six members of the University's Faculty have signed a statement urging defeat of the Mundt-Nixon anti-Communist Bill, which passed the House of Representatives by a 319 to 58 vote Wednesday. The bill now goes to the Senate, where it is expected to face heavy sledding...
...their statement, the 46 declared: "The Mundt-Nixon Bill appears to be aimed at restricting the activities of Communists. Its vague and loose phraseology, however, indicates that it threatens the expression of liberal and progressive thought. Its enactment would strike a serious blow at our cherished rights of free expression. We deplore this attempt to restrict American freedoms and urge Congress to defeat the Mundt-Nixon Bill...
Also, A. Hunter Dupree 2G, John H. Nixon 2G, Ingeborg Greeff 2G, Carol E. Marshall 2G. Kathleen H. Moss 3G, and Frank A. Trapp...
This week three other Pennsylvania trains were wrecked on a single night. At Freeport, Pa., Engineer W. T. Nixon was killed when his locomotive rammed a standing freight. At Belvidere, N.J., three were injured in a similar crash. And just east of the now infamous Bennington curve, three cars of an eastbound freight jumped the tracks...
Richard Milhouse Nixon, dark, lank Quaker attorney who turned a California grass-roots campaign (dubbed "hopeless" by wheelhorse Republicans) into a triumph over high-powered, high-minded Democratic incumbent Jerry Voorhis. To beat Voorhis, ex-Navy Lieut. Commander Nixon, 33, passed around 25,000 white plastic thimbles labeled:-"Elect Nixon and needle the P.A.C." He plugged hard for veteran's housing, end of controls, a bipartisan foreign policy, politely avoided personal attacks on his opponent...