Word: wing
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...some other things you should know." Then he revealed the little stain from which the big smear had grown. About a year ago his sister was hospitalized with a severe nervous disorder. When her illness was acute, she said she was concerned because she once belonged to a left-wing study club. Case did everything he could to check her disconnected story, even asked the FBI's J. Edgar Hoover for help. Finally, Case concluded there was nothing to the story. Now recovered from her illness, Adelaide recalls "that she met with a small group of people . . . several times...
...ugly, long-smoldering dispute exploded last week and split Australia's brawling, sprawling Labor Party wide open. Labor Party Chief Dr. Herbert Vere Evatt, 60, openly declared war on the party's biggest single faction: the Catholic right wing, which contains almost half of Labor's membership...
...also prompted Evatt to lead the opposition when Australia's ruling Liberal Party tried-and failed-to outlaw the Communists in 1951. Evatt's defense of the Reds, high-minded as it was. provoked a rumble of discontent among his party's Catholic right wing. But the rumble grew into tumult when Evatt assailed the Petrov spy investigation (TIME, Sept. 27) as "a foul conspiracy" hatched by the conservative Liberal government. He carried on so melodramatically that the investigating Royal Commission finally barred him from participating in the hearings...
...very next meeting of Labor Party chieftains, Right Wing M.P. William Bourke picked up Evatt's "conspiracy" cry and flung it back at him: "If the conspiracy exists, you have been the leading conspirator . . . You have been, in effect, senior counsel for the Communists." Retorted an Evatt supporter: "If Dr. Evatt walked the Sea of Galilee, you'd say the Communists were holding...
...year congressional vote. In all three nations, the overall pattern of results was reassuring for Western Hemisphere stability: with minor local exceptions, the voting was peaceful and orderly, and moderates and anti-Communists did better with the voters than extremists of either the left or right wing. The big winners: ¶ Brazil's conservative President Joao Cafe Filho, though not on any ballot, significantly bested the politically potent ghost of the late President Getulio Vargas. After Vargas' suicide in August, ultra-nationalists and Communists rallied around congressional candidates running in Vargas' name; pro-U.S. moderates backed...