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...editor of the Daily Worker in 1945 when the party shifted from its wartime policy of getting along with capitalism to a postwar policy of trying to overthrow the U.S. The shift was dictated by Dmitry Z. Manuilsky, Ukraine delegate to the U.N., who at the time...
...American party for not criticizing American officials more severely." The result was French Red Jacques Duclos' now famous Paris article castigating Earl Browder, then chief of the U.S. Communist party. Browder, who still stands ready to testify for the defense, was the fall guy of the Communist policy shift dictated by Moscow...
...Blame Divided. For four hours-until after midnight-men & women, black & white, asked for more police, better street lighting, more housing. They shrieked derisively at bumbling council attempts to shift responsibility. But not all were ready to saddle the politicians with all the blame. Said the Rev. L. K. Jackson, Negro pastor of St. Paul's Baptist Church: "Even in my own church I was told that you can't fight gambling and prostitution. When I chose to fight the rackets, I was rapped by one of our Negro papers as a 'rabble-rouser.' The cure...
...three partners met again at Norris' home in Coral Gables, Fla. and came to a gentlemen's agreement. Despite Mike Jacobs' brave words and innate wariness, it looked like Wirtz & Co. had stolen a long lead. After nearly 35 years, control of heavyweight boxing might shift from Manhattan to the Midwest and there might be heavyweight title fights in Cleveland and Chicago for a change. But nobody knew how long it would be before the New York State Boxing Commission and the rest of the U.S. agreed on the next world champion...
...Commission had hastily granted the Long Island a $3.2 million-a-year boost in its commutation fares, the third boost since 1918. But the Pennsylvania Railroad, which owns the Long Island lock, stock & comic book, had decided to quit footing the bills anyway: the Long Island would have to shift for itself. With only $60,000 cash left in its till, there was nothing left for the Long Island but to ask the court to appoint trustees and reorganize...