Word: pledgees
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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In Mexico City, Artist Diego Rivera, who was expelled from the Communist Party in 1929. later compounded his sins by providing a home in exile for Leon Trotsky, made his third formal appeal to be taken back into the fold. He had been, said Rivera, "a coward, traitor, counterrevolutionary, abject...
Election night Stevenson settled down to listen to the increasingly disheartening returns on a portable radio in a ground-floor office of the Illinois governor's mansion at Springfield. At 12:40 in the morning, when Democratic hopes were clearly dead, he drove over to his election-eve campaign...
There are six charities listed on the pledge card this year instead of the usual nine, with emphasis on student groups. They are: Phillips Brooks House, Salzburg Seminar, Harvard Aid to Indonesia, American Friends' Service Committee, National Scholarship and Service Fund for Negro Students, and the World Student Service Fund...
"Where do we go from here?" asked Eisenhower. Then he made the campaign's most dramatic pledge: if elected, he will take a "simple, firm resolution: To forego the diversions of politics and to concentrate on the job of ending the Korean war . . . honorably . . .
On the other hand, the Democratic platform is quite specific. "We pledge enactment of federal legislation prohibiting discrimination in employment because of race, color, religion, or national origin and establishment of a federal agency to enforce that prohibition." The plank also advocates legislation against segregation in inter-state transportation, against...