Word: roundup
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Before sunup over New York City one day last week, 100 FBI agents climbed into 25 Buicks and began moving through the slumbering city. Precisely at 7 a.m., FBI fingers rapped on doors or punched doorbells at 20 homes. The second big roundup of U.S. Communists had begun...
Within a few hours, twelve men and four women were arrested in New York and one man in Pittsburgh. They and four others-missed in the first day's roundup -were indicted under the Smith Act by a New York federal grand jury, on charges of conspiring to teach and advocate violent overthrow of the U.S. Government. They were the second echelon of the party's high command. Presumably they would take up the U.S. party reins when the eleven Communist bosses (convicted of similar charges in 1949) are sent off to prison. Among them were familiar figures...
Wild & Woolly. The 1951 championship, backed by the fast-growing 41-college association, was not on the grand scale of the famed Pendleton Roundup, but even the old pros admitted that the kids put on quite a show. Before the competition began, the Hardin-Simmons College cowboy band came whooping into the Coliseum, followed by the Apache Belles, a 34-girl marching and dancing group from Tyler Junior College, dressed in abbreviated white satin outfits and Indian headdress. Down behind the riding chutes, the college cowboys carefully checked over their equipment-from the slick "piggin strings" (for tying calves...
Your press roundup of editorial comments on the malodorous suppression of La Prensa [April 2] is the most heartening news in American journalism today. It is good, indeed, to find our otherwise politically diverse press united in the cause of free press...
...Vicious Circle, by Margaret Case Harriman. A lighthearted anecdotal roundup about the bright bunch that met at the Algonquin in the '20s and '30s for food, talk and character assassination (TIME, March...