Word: normans
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...strike.) Quill was, even then, a prominent leader of the CIO and president of the Transport Workers Union. Objecting to the "pseudo-peace stand" and the Communist affiliations of the Student Union, the Harvard Anti-War Committee planned a rival peace meeting the afternoon of April 20, with Norman Thomas, Socialist candidate for President, as guest speaker...
...that it was only an ugly little episode triggered by a "handful of Communists." Tensions were high at election time, and to keep everything honest, scores of foreign and diplomatic "observers" poured into the country to watch over the vote, including 70 self-appointed liberal watchdogs led by Socialist Norman Thomas. In the end, all the visitors-including even Norman Thomas himself-agreed that last week's election was fair...
...have been forced to slash their mortgage lending, causing builders and lenders alike to forecast a severe slump within a few months in the already limping housing industry. "Not only are lenders refusing to talk to home builders about plans for this summer and fall," says Executive Vice President Norman Strunk of the U.S. Savings and Loan League, "but they are even cutting back drastically on loans to finance the purchase of existing homes...
...Russians Are Coming were as good as its best actor, the laughter might reach gale force. Sad to say, Director Norman Jewison and Scenarist William Rose, working from a novel by Nathaniel Benchley, seem too anxious, or too unsubtle, to sound the depths of a delightfully quirky human comedy. Instead they try too often for ding-dong farce, calling on a corps of hard-sell comedians to transform the townfolk into strident cartoons. Jonathan Winters as an addled police officer, Ben Blue as an irrelevant drunk, and Paul Ford as a sword-swinging Legionnaire are the chief offenders, since their...
...strike.) Quill was, even then, a prominent leader of the CIO and president of the Transport Workers Union. Objecting to the "pseudo-peace stand" and the Communist affiliations of the Student Union, the Harvard Anti-War Committee planned a rival peace meeting the afternoon of April 20, with Norman Thomas, Socialist candidate for President, as guest speaker...