Word: blankets
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Shortly before the downy blanket of winter is drawn up snugly over the countryside, the New York Times publishes a survey of that city's Hundred Neediest Cases. For several pages it details woeful tale after woeful tale, the plight of an "Overburdened Girl" or "Courageous Grandmother" unfolding in full tragedy...
...case turned out to be a Ku Klux Klan captain of intelligence - and a member of Alabama's interracial Council on Human Relations who had sat quietly through all council meetings. Method No. 2: Quick Mobilization. The Citizens' Councils have a chain-telephone-call system that can blanket the city in twelve hours. Method No. 3: Phone Threats. A Presbyterian minister who wrote to the Birmingham News last September simply to protest Orval Faubus' indictment of Presbyterian ministers as "brainwashed left-wingers" (TIME, Sept. 29) still gets regular, threatening, dead-of-night phone calls. And the thing...
...insure cooperation by seating two elected members from each House on House Committees, instead of only one. "We would get solidarity by having Council members speak to and get advice from House Committees, he claimed. However, Marc E. Leland '59, president of the Council, said that no one blanket rule could be made for all the Houses...
...present estimates, the uniform rate would be set at approximately $220-260. This would represent a sizable rent increase for the student who just manages to come to Harvard independent of financial aid, and lives in a $150 room. It would be unrealistic to hope that some sort of blanket financial aid could be given to all the people for whom the new rate would constitute a serious financial problem. Although the sums involved are of considerable importance to individual students, they are small enough so that they may well escape the consideration of the financial aid office, especially...
...departments turn loose an army of 19,000 eager carrier boys to home-deliver fully 85% of the Sunday papers. In all, the Cowles brothers have a 275,000-square-mile hegemony: the Des Moines Register (circ. 220,221), Tribune (circ. 128,824) and Sunday Register (circ. 515,599) blanket Iowa like the state's fertile black topsoil; the Minneapolis Tribune (circ. 208,236), Star (circ. 290,960) and Sunday Tribune (circ. 630,035) sell throughout Minnesota and North and South Dakota, cut a swath through western Wisconsin...