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...these groups have divided sharply over some of the most important issues affecting voting, from entry into World War II, through intensity of anti-Communism, to, most recently, McCarthyism. In general, the Catholic nationalities respond one way toward these issue, the Jews and Negroes the other. For the past sixteen years, it has been a fact in New York politics that when Jews and Negroes go into the Democratic column, Catholics get out. And vice-versa...
Today Whalen, who last week completed eight out of sixteen passes for a total of 122 yards, will be only one of three UMass passers. Behind him on the bench will be junior Howie Burns and sophomore John Noble, who will both get a chance to direct the Redmen's straight-and split-T formations...
...Sixteen months ago (TIME, April 27, 1953 et seq.), Grunewald pleaded guilty to a contempt of Congress charge (based on his earlier refusal to answer questions), paid a maximum fine of $1,000 but beat a 90-day jail rap. On the new indictment, the name-dropping, high-flying Dutchman, a frisky sexagenarian, faces possible prison time...
...Sixteen years ago, Neville Chamberlain returned from Munich, his furled umbrella in one hand, a piece of paper in the other, and rode through cheering crowds from Heston aerodrome to No. 10 Downing Street. To the crowd gathered before his door in Downing Street he proclaimed: "For the second time in our history a British Prime Minister has returned from Germany bringing peace with honor." King George VI welcomed him at Buckingham Palace; Britons stood in the rain cheering him as he declared, "I believe it is peace for our time...
...Workers staged mass anti-government demonstrations in the streets of Hankow. Sixteen pushcart coolies accused of "inciting them to disturb general peace and security" were sentenced to death at a public trial (Yangtze Daily, March...