Word: outlawing
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...passage of a year. For disarmament, Vishinsky wanted a world disarmament conference, to sit by next June; for Korea, he insisted on a truce at the 38th parallel and an evacuation of all foreign troops; for the benefit of Communism, he wanted the U.N. to condemn and outlaw the West's North Atlantic defense organization; for the record, he wanted it understood that the same old Wall Street imperialists and Washington warmongers were responsible for the world's ills. As for the West's plan: "The mountain . . . gave birth to a mouse ... a dead mouse...
Pinch-Hitter. When the plant was finished, Ben talked General Manager Fred Griffiths into keeping him on as a field engineer. Ben knew little about steel, but a lot about baseball, and that knowledge came in handy. Ohio companies, rich with war profits, had organized the famed "outlaw" Midwest League, and were recruiting Big Leaguers for their teams. Fairless was given the job of rounding up a team, the "Agathons." He managed it so well-smoothing" over the constant squabbling of the stars-that the Agathons won the league pennant. Fred Griffiths, impressed by Fairless' peacemaking talents, threw...
Although alert to the Red threat, the Australian people, in his opinion, show none of the hysteria Tipping finds in the United States. A constitutional amendment to outlaw the Communist Party was opposed by none other than Herbert Evatt, first president of the General Assembly. "Evatt risked political suicide by defending the Reds' rights, but the amendment was roundly defeated by the people...
...Massachusetts House yesterday adopted a measure which would outlaw the Communist Party and all organizations considered "subversive" by the courts. At the same time, the Harvard Liberal Union announced that the group would circulate a petition in the dining halls requesting that Governor Paul A. Dever veto any anti-Communist bill which passes both House and Senate...
...McCarthy-Dorgan bill to outlaw the Party came up first in a hectic March 14 hearing before the Committee on Constitutional Law. Dorgan accused President Conant of refusing "to remove Communists from his teaching staff," and mentioned Harlow Chapley, Professor of Astronomy, as unfit to teach because of alleged Communist affiliations ("alleged" referring to Senator McCarthy's charges against Shapley.) Representative Meyer Peterson sounded the keynote: "What is the Supreme Court worry about the constitutionality of this bill? It's about time we took some positive action...