Word: germane
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Hartley's thrifty German citizens just didn't like it. They knew it was only make-believe but it kind of scared them anyway. "They know Communism is bad," explained a town official. "They feel that when you play around with something that is bad, somebody's going to get hurt." Some remembered that when Mosinee, Wis. had a Communist Day, the mayor had suffered a fatal heart attack. Then the program said that houses would be searched. "They won't have no pants if they come to our place," said one housewife...
Meanwhile, last week's controversy could not obscure the fact that Europe's traditional enemies, France and Germany, were prepared to deliver to some European authority the guts of their industries. Said one German delegate: "This in effect is the Peace Conference. For whatever we sign will be a treaty that we will not, that we cannot, fight each other again...
...meeting in Düsseldorf of the French-German Friendship Society attended by more than 100 powerful Ruhr industrialists, McCloy predicted a bright future for the Ruhr and all Western Germany as part of a united Western Europe. But he added that the free world was watching to see whether Germany would continue on the right path. It was during the question period, following his calm, factual address, that trouble started. Led by Theodor Goldschmidt, president of Essen's Chamber of Commerce, a group of Germans began firing complaints about high occupation costs, high taxes, the costly burden...
Polish-born John Czernyha '51 of Kirkland House is also receiving safe grades to hold his scholarship and has no interest in American girls. Czernyha, who hopes to finish a book he is writing on Russian concentration camps (he is a first-hand authority on German ones) this summer, has been engaged for the past year to a girl he met in a Polish DP camp last year, and who is now living in Hartford. Czernyha is working in Hartford this summer and hopes to be married within a month...
...lawmakers. During hearings on the Teacher's Oath issue in the summer of that year a letter was introduced by Elizabeth Dilling, the ace communist hunter of her day, which referred to President Conant as a gent "partial to Russians, highly tolerant of Communists, but with their enemies the German Nazis, is harsh and refuses them opportunity to speak at Harvard." Conant and a large number of other faculty members appeared personally at the Teacher's Oath hearing to object to what they considered a serious abrogation of their freedom...