Word: joining
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Dates: during 1950-1950
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Hordes of Indians are expected to join the Crimson rooters at tonight's rally. President John Sloan Dickey has expedited the exodus from Hanover by declaring tomorrow an Athletic Holiday and calling off Saturday classes...
...letter of the law did not give much choice. It banned any alien who "at any time" had been "affiliated" with any "section, branch, affiliate, or subdivision" of any "totalitarian party." Under Hitler, nearly every youth was forced to join one or another of the Hitler Youth organizations; nearly every man who worked for a living had to belong to a Nazi-dominated labor union. In Italy, every school was a Fascist school. Officials estimated that the new law would exclude 90% of all Germans, more than half of all Italians. It would bar all repentant Communists, interfere with trade...
...creating a very satisfactory uproar. As ship after ship steamed into New York harbor, immigration authorities seized one distinguished victim after another. There was Friedrich Gulda, a talented 20-year-old Austrian pianist who had come to give a concert in Carnegie Hall (Gulda had been required to join a Nazi youth group at the age of ten). Famed Conductor Victor de Sabata, who conducted at Tanglewood earlier this year and was coming again as guest conductor for the Pittsburgh Symphony Orchestra, had conducted Milan's La Scala orchestra during the Mussolini regime. A German war bride of Philadelphia...
Idealism or physical prowess has undoubtedly moved some undergraduates to join the Crusade For Freedom, a nation-wide campaign to "life the Iron Curtain everywhere...
Having thus fortified himself against any charge that he was aiding a phony Russian peace offensive, Stassen softened his tone. Stalin, in effect, was urged to change his spots, lay down his gun, wipe the frown off his face, join the club and quit causing trouble in the U.N. Stassen guaranteed that the U.S. would not attack him without provocation. "If you doubt any of the things I say to you," he added, "I believe I can prove each point through . . . further conferences...