Word: setting
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Dates: during 1950-1950
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...quiet Manhattan courtroom, Hiss was sentenced to five years in prison. Hiss scarcely had time to post $10,000 bail and file an appeal before Secretary of State Dean Acheson set off the storm. At a crowded press conference in Washington, Acheson went to the defense of the former top State Department official whom a federal jury had convicted of perjury and thus found, guilty of stealing State documents to be sent to Russia...
...without even waiting for the mine owners' formal invitation. "Newspapers chronicle that you now wish to negotiate," he wrote. "If this be true, I advise that representatives of the U.M.W.A. will meet with representatives of your industry group . . . February 1 to negotiate in good faith . . ." The date he set had a purpose behind it too-it is the very day that the U.M.W. had been ordered to appear in Washington's district court to answer General Counsel Robert Denham of the National Labor Relations Board, who wants a court injunction against John L.'s three-day week...
...Academy's training ship Ensign Whitehead. A crew of 16 Korean officers was flown to New York to bring her home. They rechristened her the Bak Dusan, studied her vagaries in a two-week orientation course at the academy, painted her white sides a dark battleship grey, and set sail for the Pacific...
Paced by Britain's triumphant Labor Party, socialism the world over rose to a high-water mark in the immediate postwar years. An ebb has now set...
From Germany a fortnight ago came a news report which made a brief page-one splash and then got lost in subsequent European dispatches. The story concerned an organization known as the Bruderschaft, or Brotherhood--a group of German generals and staff officers set up after the war to aid the widows and orphans of dead officers...