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...confused mixture of race hatred, sporadic riots, torchlight demonstrations, and anti-constitutionalism marks the political situation in the suddenly prosperous South African nation...

Author: By William M. Beecher, | Title: Race-Conscious Union of S. Africa Faces Important Spring Elections | 12/16/1952 | See Source »

Foreign Trade. In New Orleans, where he was greeted by a torchlight parade organized by the Seafarers International Union (A.F.L.), Stevenson presented his hosts a verbal bouquet ("You have made an admirable civilization. It is a jambalaya containing all that makes for the body's pleasure, the mind's delight, the spirit's repose"), then discussed foreign trade, essential to New Orleans' busy port. Said Stevenson: "The "suicidal foreign-trade fanaticism" of the Republicans, who were responsible for the Hawley-Smoot tariff (1930), would kill off foreign trade, would -by not buying from Japan and Germany...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: Adlai's Five Days | 10/20/1952 | See Source »

...little evidence. Alexander Kerensky spoke to the College, and Seniors heard him say that the Russian government would surely fall within a short time. It was a gubernatorial year in Massachusetts, and the Young Republicans, led by H. L. Kobol and Henry Cabot Lodge '23 marched in a torchlight parade...

Author: By Michael Maccory, | Title: Athletic Rift with Nassau Marked Last Year for '27 | 6/18/1952 | See Source »

Hundreds of cheering Cornell students and their dates led a torchlight parade in Ithaca last night to celebrate the home-coming of the Big Red football team...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Cornell Students Hold Rally, Cheer Returning Eleven | 10/13/1951 | See Source »

...veterans did most of the inspiring five weeks ago when 10,000 of them trekked into Cape Town-some from 1,000 miles away-to protest the government's "Fascist arrogance" with a huge torchlight parade. One hundred and sixty people, including 15 police, were injured when rioting broke...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: SOUTH AFRICA: Sailor Y. Premier | 7/9/1951 | See Source »

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