Word: claimed
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...other students against the new Communist regime. At this juncture, foreign publications, including TIME, were admitted to the country but never reached the newsstands. Halla believed the bundles were destroyed when they reached the border-a procedure that permitted effective censorship of democratic journals while allowing the Communists to claim that freedom of the press was being maintained. At the end of February, 1948, however, TIME was banned for keeps. But some copies managed to get through, and Halla sometimes saw them...
...State Supreme Court is currently examining New York's Feinberg Anti-Subversive Law for symptoms of constitutionality. A number of civic and political groups have asked for a permanent injunction against the bill, which would root "disloyal" teachers out of New York public schools. These organizations claim the law would install "thought control" in the Empire State. The bill's framers say their measure will protect "children of tender years" from the Communist ideology...
...Henderson decision will necessarily affect the opinion on southern college policy. The schools involved claim that they provide "separate but equal" facilities for non-white students...
...cinemansions, which sell $500 million worth of popcorn and candy a year, had something new last week to interest moviegoers who merely want to see and hear the picture: a porous popcorn bag that is not only crackle-proof and explosion-proof but cannot (its manufacturers claim) be filled with water and dropped from the balcony...
Hollywood can claim no credit for the shattering magnificence of the combat scenes in Task Force. But for the sharp-eyed selection, and the patient cutting and pasting which brings history roaring back into vivid, living focus, it can claim a knockout...