Word: disbanded
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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This production is not by the Brattle Players. The Brattle Theatre proper announced its closing this fall because of lack of funds. It was expected that the Players, an independent organization would disband permanently, but a new drive to reopen the theatre is now being considered...
Flicking out his words like whisks of a schoolmaster's cane. Attlee moved what amounted to an either-or ultimatum to the Bevanites: disband and shut up, or get out of the Labor Party. And no argy-bargy about what is or is not a party-within-a-party. "You can't define an elephant," snapped Attlee, "but you can recognize one when...
...Bevan group," he said, hand on heart. "Let us put off [a vote] until the next session of [Parliament]." But the majority turned him down. By 188 votes to 51 (with 53 Laborites absent or abstaining), the Parliamentary Labor Party endorsed Attlee's ultimatum. The Bevanites would probably disband as a group, but this would hardly stop them from getting together informal-like, and thinking and talking alike...
...words were a rallying cry to all the Attleeites. At a meeting of parliamentary front benchers Attlee himself cast aside the cloak of neutrality he has tried up to now to wear as party leader. In tart, hot temper, he outlined an ultimatum to the Bevanites-disband the party-within-a-party and stop calling names in public. Nye Bevan, his eyes round with affected innocence, faced the challenge with the wounded mien of a child accused of palming the queen in a game of Old Maid. With hands spread wide, he offered to throw his group meetings open...
...Combined Charities Committee decided not to disband last night, instead accepting a Student Council suggestion to strike the Experiment in International Living off its list and preserve a nearly equal ratio of national and international charities...