Word: outlaw
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...soles ($800), the revolution was well worth the price as a demonstration of Bustamante's strength. A month ago Bustamante had dismissed from his cabinet the reactionary army leaders who wanted to outlaw the leftist Aprista party. Fortnight ago he announced that he meant to steer Peru on a straight-down-the-middle course. In the quick showdown forced by Llosa, the army stood behind the President. Within a few hours of the first call to revolt, all garrison commanders pledged loyalty to Bustamante. Early rumors that General Manuel Odria and other former cabinet members might join the uprising...
...Since May 11, when Howard Hughes stepped in as RKO's controlling stockholder, Hollywood has been speculating over Schary's future. Leftish Schary is proudest of having masterminded such films as the lowbudget, propaganda-heavy Crossfire; conservative Hughes favors blatantly sexy, splashily costly movies like his own Outlaw. They had never met, but neither man was particularly attracted by what he knew about the other...
...sounded knowledgeable. When Harold Stassen cornered him in their radio debate, he handled Stassen with aplomb. Most Oregonians thought that Dewey won their argument, agreed with him that any attempt to outlaw the Communist Party was folly...
...committee had tackled a troubling problem of political freedom: how to deal democratically with a group which is dedicated to the destruction of U.S. democracy. The Mundt-Nixon bill proposed an evasive solution. The bill, after labeling the Communist Party an alien conspiracy, did not outlaw the party. But it would...
Last week, the National Labor Relations Board closed the Taft-Hartley door with a bang. In a 3-2 decision it ruled that jt will no longer hold union shop elections in states which outlaw it. Such NLRB elections, the majority decided, "would lead only to the circumvention and frustration of State law." For labor leaders who rely on the union shop device to control and hold their memberships, it was a hard blow...