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...vote in the Senate, a John W. Bricker amendment to an otherwise routine bill increasing to $3,000,000 the annual U.S. contributions to the International Labor Organization and the Food and Agriculture Organization of the U.N. Ohio Republican Bricker insisted that the extra money be withheld until Iron Curtain representatives are expelled from the ILO. Against Administration objections that the rider would portray the U.S. as dictating to the free world, 35 Republicans and eight Democrats voted to give Bricker his way. ¶ Approve, without debate in the Senate, a bill increasing the maximum Smith Act penalty for advocating...
...days it was withheld from print. Then, as the 20th congress ended, Khrushchev called his famous secret meeting in which he tearfully blabbed the whole story of Stalin's mass murders, torturings and evil motives. Nikita's reasons could be deduced: if the party was going to open that one up, he was going to be chief opener. If they intended to pin a guilt label to him, he would show that they were all equally guilty. By twice indicating in his speech that Georgy Malenkov was Stalin's most trusted collaborator, he wanted to make certain...
...taken its rapier (and at times its club) to anyone at the seat of Government. It approved of much in Harry Truman's Fair Deal, but it was unrelenting in its criticism of the corruption in his Administration. It praised Alf M. Landon and Wendell Willkie highly, but withheld formal support from any presidential candidate until Graham broke that precedent in 1952 by endorsing Eisenhower...
When Playwright Eugene O'Neill in 1941 inscribed the work to his wife Carlotta, he called it "this play of old sorrow, written in tears and blood." So personal and painful were its harsh, acid scenes that O'Neill withheld publication or performance until after his death. As he lay dying, he asked that the first performance of his last play be given in Sweden, where his popularity was always greater than it was in the U.S. Last week, two years after his death and 15 years after the play's birth, O'Neill...
...Newark neighbor's of Brewery Cashier George J. Brueckner wondered how, on take-home pay of $87 weekly, he managed to own two cars, keep a daughter in college, and plunk down $23,000 in cash for a house. The answer: he withheld receipts sent to the brewery to perfect his own "unbeatable" system of betting on the horses, but contrived to balance the company books at the end of each month. Finally, the shortage reached $125,000 and Brueckner could cover up no more. He confessed, and was sentenced to prison for embezzlement...