Word: board
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...After protests from the N.A.A.C.P. and others, the New York City board of education dropped Helen Bannerman's Little Black Sambo (TIME, Dec. 24, 1945) and Mark Twain's The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn from its lists of books "approved" for use in New York City's elementary and junior high schools. Tom Sawyer passes the board's muster...
...Teamsters cared not a nit about the 1958 order handed down by Washington's Federal District Judge F. Dickinson Letts. That order, arising from a suit against Hoffa by 13 rank-and-file Teamsters, placed the racket-ridden, goon-directed union under the supervision of a three-member board of court-appointed monitors. But Hoffa blithely declared that the monitors' recommendations were purely advisory, ignored them completely ("O.K., you've advised me; I reject your advice"), looked forward confidently to the day when Judge Letts's order would be dissolved by an appellate court. Last week...
...shoes, leaking all over the coach, all running down through the coaches." Reported another: "Cars are allowed to go into service dirty, without water for the public. Passenger trains are normally operated ten to 30 minutes late." Reported a New Haven station agent: "We find now that we board up station windows rather than replace glass. We disregard broken planks in platforms, as there are no planks available for repairs...
Which Way Freedom? What had been expected to be an explosive issue fizzled deceptively. Climaxing 3½ years of study, a 15-man commission headed by North Dakota's Dr. Leonard W. Larson, chairman of the board of trustees, recommended last December that the A.M.A. relax its opposition to the practice of medicine by closed panels and groups.* Instead, it should concentrate on the quality of the care given, and the patient's freedom to choose between an independent physician and a panel. Surprisingly, the House of Delegates approved the Larson report last week with no debate...
Died. Eugene McAuliffe, 92, president (1923-44), board chairman (1944-47) of Union Pacific Coal Co., a leader of the coal industry who always considered the welfare of his miners: he mechanized his mines without dropping a man, sent Chinese laborers who proved unsuitable for the mines back to China at company expense; in Omaha...