Word: americanization
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...cranberry scare illustrated the level of idiocy to which the American people have fallen [Nov. 23]. Cigarettes, long recognized as a possible cause of cancer, are still indiscriminately sold to people who can't think for themselves. But the minute that a possible cancer-causing chemical was thought to be on some cranberries, the whole nation went into pandemonium...
...long the crippling of the entire economy as the result of labor-management disputes in any one basic industry," said the President midway in the speech delivered from the White House just before he took off for Europe and Asia. "The choice," said he, "is up to free American employers and American employees. Voluntarily, in the spirit of free collective bargaining, they will act responsibly; or else, in due course, their countrymen will see to it that they do act responsibly...
...when the strike-halting Taft-Hartley injunction expires Jan. 26. "What great news it would be if, during the course of this journey, I should receive word of a settlement of this steel controversy that is fair to the workers, fair to management and, above all, fair to the American people," said he. But the steelworkers and steel companies, deeply entrenched and unshakably stubborn after a 116-day siege, did not hop to please the President...
...jolly veterans who comprise the American Legion's fun-loving 40 & 8 Society have been wrangling for ten years over the Legion's insistence that they drop their ban against admitting nonwhite members (American Indians are allowed). The Legion, which itself is interracial, pushed the question to a floor vote at the last convention (TIME, Sept. 7), but the integrationists lost. Authorized by his executive committee to the necessary steps, the Legion's new National Commander, Martin McKneally, Newburgh (N.Y.) lawyer and World War II Army major, last week did just that. He ousted...
Reconciliation. No longer do Americans in India find themselves subjected to the special brand of Indian inquisition that used to feature a series of needling questions: Why does the U.S. back dictators like Chiang Kai-shek and Franco? Why does the U.S. arm Pakistan, India's obvious enemy? Why are Negroes oppressed in the South? Last month, when quietly competent U.S. Ambassador Ellsworth Bunker addressed the first session of the newly formed Indo-American Society in rambunctious, left-wing Calcutta (where Eisenhower was burned in effigy in 1956), he was astonished to find that it had already a thousand...