Word: weaponeering
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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After taking a hard look at the Taft-Hartley Act, the National Labor Relations Board decided three years ago that it had a double-barreled weapon for blasting Communists out of the labor movement. Barrel No. i: The act requires all union leaders to file non-Communist affidavits before a union may qualify for the board's vital services, of which an important one is certification of the union as a col lective bargaining agent. Barrel No. 2: it seemed logical to the board that, in cases where unions persisted in re-electing officers indicted or convicted for falsifying...
Then began a striking demonstration of the power of the popular will. Some business and professional men formed a Front for the Defense of the Constitution. Their aim was to oust Magloire, their weapon was the general strike. With whispers and chain letters they spread the word...
...Black-marketeers and influence-peddlers by the thousands will have to go to work. Prices, for those who used to get subsidized commodities, will go up. Among the groups that will be hit, President Siles' popularity is bound to drop. Yet his great popularity is almost the only weapon Siles has to use in putting the reforms across; Bolivia's main armed force is not a government-directed regular army; it is the revolutionary militia set up by miners and other laborers...
...Communists' chief weapon against the Catholic Church in Poland seemed broken last week. The weapon: PAX, an organization of fellow-traveling Catholic laymen. Faced with Premier Wladyslaw Gomulka's anti-Stalinist regime, and with a new agreement for cooperation between church and state (TIME, Dec. 17), PAX was frantically holding meetings, breaking itself up into splinter groups with new names, trying to get its members into other organizations. Explained Radio Warsaw: "PAX, disguising itself, would like to regain the confidence of the community." That confidence had never really existed...
Floyd Wilson's Crimson basketball team turned the Brown attack into its own best offensive weapon last night as it overwhelmed the Bruins, 92 to 47, at the Blockhouse...