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...ghosts plaguing his trail, along with Combs. Although he is endorsed by the state A.F.L. and the Louisville C.I.O. Council, Happy's labor record does not look good to Washington C.I.O. headquarters, which has sent a man into Kentucky to try to get the labor leaders to rescind their endorsement. Then there is the Negro problem: in 1948 Happy's newspaper, the Woodford Sun, endorsed Strom Thurmond for the presidency. Happy blames his editor for the endorsement and invokes the shade of Jackie Robinson ("I put him in business") with every Negro he meets. But the Dixiecrat label...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: Happy Days | 4/11/1955 | See Source »

Early this year, Israel's ex-Prime Minister David Ben-Gurion called upon Judaism to rescind its excommunication of Spinoza and proposed that, as a kind of atonement, the Hebrew University publish the philosopher's complete works two years hence on the 300th anniversary of the famous curse...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: Anathema | 8/9/1954 | See Source »

...certainly hope that the Student Council will move with dispatch to rescind this absurd action which it has attempted to justify with some of the most amazingly unintelligent, illogical, and ingeniously inconsistent reasoning I have ever read. Hoger Allan Moore...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Elimination of Salzburg Protested | 10/21/1953 | See Source »

...everything was going much like the day before when thousands had marched through the streets in protest, and surprisingly forced Otto Grotewohl's Red government to rescind a work speedup decree. An odd, almost festive air made it even harder to believe that an unheard of thing was happening. Children on bicycles circled in front of the marchers. Even when the first Russians rolled into sight in armored cars and open infantry trucks to back up the nervous and confused People's Police (Volkspolizei or Vopos), the marchers grinned and whistled and jeered. An East German perched shakily...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: COLD WAR: Rebellion in the Rain | 6/29/1953 | See Source »

...statement on the "easy-firing bill," the ACLU said that "if, disregarding 160 years of American history, its proponents wish to rescind the privilege against self-incrimination, let them do so in an orderly, Constitutional fashion." Pechan's bill, the ACLU says, "circumvents" this privilege...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Pechan Has Two More | 6/10/1953 | See Source »

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