Word: 14th
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...satisfaction, at least, the U.S. Communist Party showed last week how to run off a political convention. The 14th national convention since the party's founding in 1919, it began with a mass meeting in Manhattan's Madison Square Garden. The meeting was open to all; 17,000 attended. Then 250 carefully culled-over delegates slipped off to the uptown and plainly bourgeois Riverside Plaza Hotel for the real business...
Perhaps for the benefit of other TIME readers who might care to help, we should print here the addresses of the United Service for New Americans and the Catholic Committee for Refugees. The first is 15 Park Row, the second 265 West 14th Street - both in New York City...
...were particularly desirous of visiting what Pike called the highest peak of the mountains, which now bears the name of that distinguished explorer and soldier. Its summit had been reported inaccessible. A detachment of the party, however, conducted by Dr. James, went to the top on the 13th and 14th of July, 1820. From this circumstance it was called James' Peak, and this name is given to it on the map which accompanies the report of the expedition...
Last week Chief Justice Vinson delivered the opinion of the court. Its essence: restrictive real-estate covenants are lawful-as private agreements-but under the terms of the 14th Amendment and the Civil Rights Act of 1866 they cannot be enforced by either state or federal courts. Without doubt, this was a momentous decision in U.S. judicial history. It would set off no violent upheaval in the pattern of city life. But it removed one of the weapons by which segregation is enforced, and would give the Negro an increasingly better chance to make a decent life for himself...
...First-Baseman Eddie Robinson was batting .462, Third-Baseman Ken Keltner was leading the league with five homeruns, and Outfielder Larry Doby-the American League's first & only Negro-had slammed two more. Bob Feller had won his first two starts, saved a third game by quenching a 14th-inning fire with two strike-outs (after Boudreau had tried six other pitchers...