Word: showings
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...operation on the C.I.O.'s Communist-line wing was performed with a meat ax by a stern and rejuvenated Philip Murray and his staff of strategists. Leaders of the biggest Red-run union of them all, the United Electrical Workers Union, did not even show their faces on the convention floor. They huddled in Cleveland's Allerton Hotel, sniffing the cold, strange wind and making distant and preposterous sounds of defiance. A day before they and their little brothers, the Farm Equipment Workers, were expelled, they packed their bags and fled...
...Classes." On a wall are the words of the 119th article of the Stalin Constitution: "Citizens of the U.S.S.R. have the right to rest and leisure." Wall relief sculpture depicts musicians, sportsmen and dancers. At another station, the motif is "Victory of the Soviet People over Fascism"; the mosaics show pilots, soldiers & sailors...
...Czech puppet Parliament last month passed a church law, by the usual unanimous show of hands, which made all clergymen employees of the state, and set up President Klement Gottwald's Communist son-in-law, Alexej Cepicka, as cabinet minister in charge of religion. The Catholic Church had consistently fought against the law; one manifesto, signed by 80% of the country's 7,000 priests, declared it "absolutely unacceptable." A memorandum sent to the government by the Council of Bishops a week after the passage of the law charged that it violated the Czech Republic's constitution...
...such publications as Rider & Driver and Town & Country. From 48th to 52nd Streets, prizefight and hockey fans were in temporary retreat before the advancing wave of high society which was bravely turned out in sables and silk hats, diamonds and décolletages. The 61st annual National Horse Show was on in Madison Square Garden...
...from countries where the military horse still has a function and meaning. Mexico's famed Colonel Humberto Mariles, who captains the world's greatest riding team (TIME, Nov. 15, 1948), gallantly announced that "when teams are so equally matched, it is 99% luck." Then he proceeded to show that it was just about 99% skill. For three afternoons and evenings the Mexican team walked away with every military trophy; six times the band played Mexico's national anthem in token of another victory for the visitors...