Word: present
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Secret. The Government's cold and correct prosecutors called a series of cold and correct G-men to the stand to present a damning case. As a Justice Department political analyst, Barnard-educated Judy Coplon had kept her desk loaded with scores of secret documents; she had been trailed by the FBI, been seen keeping clandestine appointments with a Soviet United Nations employee, Valentin A. Gubichev...
...walking delegate in Latin America, he had tirelessly gone up & down the continent lining up pro-democratic trade unionists. He knew intimately the leader of every I.L.O. worker delegation, and though his role at the conference was only an adviser's, he was unquestionably the most influential man present. Even the Argentines, who had bustled in 37-strong, handing out Peronista tracts, wisely decided to string along with...
...Sociologist Robert S. (Middletown) Lynd: "Until the present year I have held the general position that it is unwise to engage a Catholic or a Communist to teach the social sciences ... I believe that a teacher should not teach with a bit in his teeth controlled by any organization able thereby to control what he teaches and omits from his teaching and with a record of exercising such control . . . Today, anti-communism is actively fostered as a blanket political weapon, and pressure is being brought on educational institutions to dismiss uncritically actual or alleged Communists ... I have accordingly changed...
Slick, who had already spent $3,000,000 on the airline (mostly from his and brother Tom's oil-inherited wealth), planned to get along at first with his present fleet of 21 Curtiss (C-46) Commandos, in spite of the fact that the schedule boosts his route from the twelve cities he now serves to 54. Slick's route begins in Los Angeles, runs through Texas to Kansas City, St. Louis, Indianapolis, Louisville and on to Philadelphia, New York and Boston. Said he: "We will expand as we find it necessary. We're not going...
...Democratic leaders to frame a bill which "the party could support" might pick up enough votes to pass the House and still re-legalize the closed shop, clean up the non-voting rules which now disenfranchise strikers in plant elections, and provide for legal machinery less abrupt, than the present injunctions rules. In the Senate, there is some hope of compromise between the Administration bill and a minority proposal drawn up this week by Senator Taft. In both Houses, though, labor forces will have to contend with stubborn opposition from Republicans and Southerners--opposition which is itself past the point...