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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...oddest religion in the East, and the one with the most catholic pantheon, is known as Cao Dai. Founded in Saigon in the 19205, it numbers among its archangels Victor Hugo, Joan of Arc, Sun Yat-sen and Clemenceau, and boasts some 2,000,000 adherents, a private army and a pope. But Cao Dai's voluble, bright-eyed little Pope Pham Cong Tac was never able to resist meddling in secular matters. Tossing his 15,000-man army now on one side, now on the other in the delicate balance of Vietnamese politics, he succeeded only in incurring...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: SOUTH VIET NAM: Pope Takes a Powder | 3/5/1956 | See Source »

Five college organization spokesmen last night sharply attacked John R. Thomson '57, president of the Young Republican Club for allegedly attempting to subvert the Political Forum. They charged that he caused the Forum's latest scheduled speaker, Sen. Styles Bridges (Rep-N.H.) to cancel his March 1st talk...

Author: By John A. Rava, | Title: Political Clubs Accuse Thomson of Meddling | 2/18/1956 | See Source »

This is the second time that Thomson, an outspoken foe of the Forum, has been under fire for tampering with Forum speakers. In November, he admitted urging Sen. John Bricker (Rep.-Ohio) not to address the Forum...

Author: By John A. Rava, | Title: Political Clubs Accuse Thomson of Meddling | 2/18/1956 | See Source »

BOSTON, Feb. 13-Sen. Neuberger (D-Ore) said tonight he and Sen. Morse (D-Ore) plan to sponsor legislation which would give the name of the late author Bernard DeVoto '18 to Clearwater National Forest, Idaho...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: DeVoto Honored | 2/14/1956 | See Source »

WASHINGTON, Feb. 12--Sen. Douglas (D-Ill.) said today that only the surface has been scratched on what he described as "enormous amounts" spent to influence public opinion on the natural gas bill, now before President Eisenhower. The question of broadening the limited inquiry now under way will be considered by senators this week...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Petrov, Former Red Spy, Calls Mclean, Burgess Russian Agents; Douglas Cites Gas Bill Influence | 2/13/1956 | See Source »

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