Word: norman
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...veteran advocate of party-line causes, was the conference chairman. Quietly working around him was the same hard core of trained Communists, the same muddle of the earnest and the inexperienced. The list of sponsors included such familiar leftist names as Playwright Arthur (Death of a Salesman) Miller, Novelist Norman (The Naked and the Dead) Mailer, Composer Aaron Copland, Poet Louis Untermeyer, New York Times Critic Olin Downes...
Inside, one dissenting voice was raised in protest. Armed with a telegram of encouragement from Assistant Secretary of State George V. Allen, Editor Norman Cousins, of the Saturday Review of Literature, spoke over boos and catcalls. To his fellow delegates he said: "I ask you to believe that the American people . . . are not speaking out against the idea of peace . . . They are speaking out against a small political group in this country which has failed to live up to the rules of the game in a democracy . . . Tell the folks at home that Americans are antiCommunist, not anti-humanitarian...
...Persians on problems of military administration. The mission's presence has been requested by Persia and is covered by an agreement registered with the U.N. Also on hand is a U.S. police mission, composed of twelve officers and men, who went to Persia in 1942 under Colonel Norman Schwarzkopf, former director...
...optimist or a pessimist," announced Socialist Norman Thomas to a Kansas City audience. "I am a meliorist...
FRESHMAN SWIMMING--Major Numerals 1951--Norman B. Ackerman...