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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...President partially justified his stand by recalling the follies of appeasement and stated that there would be no repeat of Munich in the present crisis. But the coastal islands three miles off the mainland cannot be compared in strategic or moral importance to what in 1938 was the most democratic and strongest free nation in Central Europe. Military experts have testified that Matsu and besieged Quemoy are not important to the defense of Formosa, which lies about 100 miles further east. They possess significant military value only as offensive bridgeheads...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Strait Shooting | 9/24/1958 | See Source »

LEXINGTON, Ky.--Two Southern governors criticized President Eisenhower Tuesday for what they called his uncertain stand on integrating schools. But, as the Southern Governors Conference headed toward final sessions, it appeared doubtful the governors could agree on a positive stand themselves...

Author: By The ASSOCIATED Press, | Title: U.N. General Assembly Rejects Chinese Communist Membership; Governors Criticize Eisenhower | 9/24/1958 | See Source »

When Clive Staples Lewis, 59, England's top amateur theologian, reread the psalms, he was bothered by the cursing. In 109, for instance, the psalmist prays that an ungodly man may rule over his enemy and that Satan may stand at his right hand, that his enemy's ""prayers be turned into sin," that the enemy's days be few and his job be given to someone else, that when he is dead his orphans be beggars, that no one should pity him, and that God always remember against him the sins of his parents. Even more...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: Lewis on the Psalms | 9/22/1958 | See Source »

...will also present a united front during a strike. Talk was that they might trim production, or shut down, in sympathy with Ford, undercut Reuther's whipsaw tactics. Following a poor year that saw G.M.'s Chevy alone outsell all Ford cars, Ford could not afford to stand idle while competitors were producing. But the U.A.W. could not long afford a joint showdown by the Big Three. The union might be faced with $12 million a week in benefits to jobless members, would soon exhaust its $40 million war chest...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business: Strike Target | 9/22/1958 | See Source »

Lewis felt certain that the State Superior Court would uphold his findings. "I don't think there is any doubt about whether it will stand up," he stated. The atorney for the appellants, Paul G. Counihan '39 will appeal the Master's findings in Superior Court September...

Author: By John R. Adler, | Title: Church Ruled Exempt From Limit on Height | 9/22/1958 | See Source »

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