Word: setting
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Dates: during 1950-1950
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Douglas also had another argument against the McCarran bill. He argued: the McCarran "blunderbuss" would not accomplish what it set out to do. What was to prevent Communist groups from changing their names as often as they were cited, from arguing their cases interminably through the courts? He argued that the bill would merely drive the Communists underground and out of sight; it was better to keep them in sight. The fact was, the McCarran bill would probably drive the Reds underground. But that was its chief usefulness. The reiterated Communist threat to go underground is political blackmail; there never...
...theory, the Taft-Hartley law made sense when it set up the National Labor Relations Board to hear and judge unfair labor practices, and established an independent general counsel to round up and bring in the cases. But in practice, the pro-labor NLRB and its stubborn Republican counsel, Robert N. Denham, had wrangled from the first day they took office. Last week, after listening for months to organized labor's demands for Denham's head, Harry Truman politely asked him to place it on the chopping block...
...This set off a truly horrendous outcry last week from beer drinkers both at home & abroad. Michigan's belligerent Democratic Congressman John Dingell trumpeted that the decision could mean sure death to thousands of troops. Beer is a "wholesome food drink," he declared, but the water in Korea is so full of typhus, dysentery and cholera that it is "deadlier than bullets." Cried Dingell: "Human beings usually have 33 feet of guts, but I bet the man who made that decision doesn't have three feet...
...company was still in doubt about its second U.S. reception, there were other, more substantial assurances. Impresario Sol Hurok's office predicted a steady sellout through the company's three-week stay at the Met. After Manhattan, Sadler's Wells will set out on a four-month, 31-stop continental tour which has already piled up the biggest advance sale (more than $1,000,000) in American dance history...
...Alley tune to get into his rigidly classical musical diet. Born in St. Petersburg 49 years ago, he studied piano at the conservatory, became an assistant conductor at the Mariinsky Theater before he was 20. But during the civil strife of the early '20s, Kostelanetz grew restless, set...