Word: usual
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Because of the intervention of the Thanksgiving holiday, the usual last-chance night for would-be competitors will not come until Friday of this week, the Directorate of the CRIMSON announced last night after a special meeting...
Levin H. Campbell '48, president of the Student Council, announced yesterday that the customary practice of offering special Loans and Scholarships to needy students will be carried on as usual this year by the Council...
Fish for the Right. As usual, a big problem was the Reds. Communism had always plagued the C.I.O., infesting many of its unions, dominating some. Right-wingers like the autoworkers' Walter Reuther hollered for the radicals' heads, but Murray managed to quell any Red-hunt. Not that he was in sympathy with Communism. But he was afraid that an open attack on them would upset everything. As he said to a meeting of his sub-chieftains, Communist-dominated unions make up 20% of C.I.O. membership. The Communists are in all unions, he said, and they have...
Many an accused would find it easy to duck out of range by denying, as usual, that Communism motivated his policy. But the resolution, unanimously accepted by the convention, will be a weapon of sorts for right-wingers. The first quarry they expected to use it on: Reid Robinson, of the miners & smelters, leftist vice president of C.I.O...
...usual, the complexities of a Uruguayan election were enough to make even a Frenchman's head swim. The predominant; Colorado (Red) Party-liberal, democratic, and international-was split into four groups, each with its own presidential aspirant. The leader of the Batllista faction, suntanned ex-farmer Tomás Berreta, 70, had the best chance to win. The Blanco (White) Party had dissidents, too, but for the moment they were united behind the presidential candidacy of tall, white-thatched Luis Alberto de Herrera, 73. Herrera, "last of the South American caudillos" ("chiefs"), had for 30 years given the Blancos...