Word: arlington
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Segregation in Arlington and other national cemeteries was abolished...
This week a U.S. military plane will take Mrs. Rice to Washington for her husband's second funeral. Walking in Blue Sky will be buried with full military honors in Arlington National Cemetery, where the color of a soldier's skin no longer* makes a difference...
Early next morning the President of the U.S. solved her problems. Harry Truman read the news story of what had happened, ordered a wire sent off to Sioux City: "Please advise the family of Sergeant John R. Rice that arrangements for burial in Arlington Cemetery have been authorized. The President feels that the national appreciation of patriotic sacrifice should not be limited by race, color or creed...
ROBERT J. BIRCH Arlington, Mass...
...Literature!-Not Just Books" was the cry in the first number of the Guild's booklet Wings, under Editor in Chief Carl Van Doren. For a while, the Guild tried to find books that "will be permanently important." It chose the work of such writers as Poet Edwin Arlington Robinson, Novelists Aldous Huxley, Elizabeth Madox Roberts and Historian Claude Bowers. When Publisher Nelson Doubleday took over in 1934, all that changed. Guild Judge Burton Rascoe gave Guild members ten Doubleday books out of 13 in 1935. That vulnerable policy changed too; nowadays, very few Doubleday books get the Guild...