Word: pact
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Speaking before 300 spectators and a barrage of newsreel and television cameras, Davis told the committee that he had joined the cell here in 1937 and quit it in 1939 because of the Soviet-Nazi pact. He said he has no evidence that the cell still exists at Harvard...
...would abide strictly by the Yalta pact...
Reischauer agreed that recent hush-hush talks between political leaders of South Korea, Nationalist China and Japan may well foreshadow an Asian economic pact. Also included might be Siam, Burma, Indonesia, India, Pakistan, and the Philippines, he indicated...
They had lost their jobs, had got behind in the rent, had come to fear they were "sliding to the gutter." He was a photographer; to buy whisky, he got a job as a restaurant counterman. The pair drank . . . and drank . . . and finally made a suicide pact. He remembered saying: "I'm going to strangle you." He remembered her answering, "O.K., honey, get it over with." When he awakened, he found the woman dead. He had turned on the gas-he hadn't wanted to live. Gently enough, the cops led him away...
Among the newer fronts: the National Committee to Secure Justice for the Rosenbergs, the Citizens' Emergency Defense Conference (for the repeal of the Smith Act), the Committee for Peaceful Alternatives to the Atlantic Pact, the National Labor Conference for Peace...