Word: pauls
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...orderly, "peaceable" demonstration, protesting the appearance of Communist-tuned Singer Paul Robeson at a picnic ground outside of Peekskill, N. Y. True, the veterans of Westchester County had brought along enough brass bands to drown out a full opera company and enough pickets to keep any traffic from getting through. But there was to be no rough stuff, the leaders promised. Then the veterans, 500 strong, started down the road leading to the picnic grove itself...
...Communist-line Civil Rights Congress, sponsors of the concert, quickly denounced the sorry affair as an attempt to "lynch Robeson." It was hardly that. But it was an example of misguided patriotism and senseless hooliganism, more useful to Communist propaganda than a dozen uninterrupted song recitals by Paul Robeson...
...Foreign Ministry went to the Christian Socialists' staunchest Leopoldist, ex-Premier Paul van Zeeland. Almost continuously for the past 13 years the Foreign Affairs portfolio had been held by the Socialists' able Paul Henri-Spaak, who last week became president of the Council of Europe's Consultative Assembly. Commented a Belgian newspaper: "Lost for Belgium but won for Europe...
...music lovers have tried hard to keep abreast of Britain's fast-moving young (35) Composer Benjamin Britten. They have seen and heard three of his operas (Paul Bunyan, Peter Grimes, The Rape of Lucretia) among other things, had three operas and a score of other works to go. Last week, Serge Koussevitzky gave his Berkshire Music Center fans a chance to catch two Britten premi...
...Curtiss-Wright Corp., which has had its share of top echelon troubles during the past year, last week got a new president: Roy T. Hurley, director of manufacturing engineering at the Ford Motor Co. He was handpicked by Wall Street Investment Banker Paul V. Shields, who took over as Curtiss-Wright's chairman and chief executive officer last April. Shields wanted a man who could cut costs at Curtiss-Wright and lift its sales volume to a profitable level with an additional line of non-aviation products...