Word: pledgees
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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There is another reason, too, why Catholics should follow Legion of Decency listings: to "increase the impact of Catholic opinion on film producers and theaters. In unity there is strength . . . The annual pledge accentuates the social dimension of the legion's purpose."
With toothy smiles all around, the national chairmen of the Democratic and Republican parties met last week in Washington's Mayflower hotel, shook hands almost as though they meant it, signed a pledge against playing dirty campaign pool this year-and immediately began whacking each other with the pool...
Of the five other charities recommended on the pledge cards, Red Feather received $1264, American Friends Service and Fund for Negro Students, $740; World University Service, $345; and Salzburg Seminar, $311. The Damon Runyon Cancer Fund, while not listed on the pledge card, received $581 of specified contributions.
Man of Distinction. Stopping the intermittent bloodletting on the Gaza strip was Hammarskjold's most dramatic effort (TIME, April 30), but winning peace pledges along Israel's northern and eastern frontiers turned out to be his trickiest assignment. The Syrians, echoed by Lebanon and Jordan, insisted that they...
General of Armies. In the last decisive moments. Hammarskjold had effective support from the Egyptians in urging their allies into line. Egypt is not eager to have a war over Jordan water. Besides. Cairo and other Arab capitals, so lately cocky over Soviet help, have been cooled off considerably by...