Word: citizen
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Letter. In Hartford, Conn., upon becoming a U.S. citizen in federal court, Turkish-born Haroutious A. Aprahamian changed his name to Haroutious A. Abrahamian...
...smashing the language barrier forever. Already Latin Americans are trying to launch similar schools in New York City, Buffalo, and Elizabeth, NJ. Last week Tijerina himself was hard at work stumping Texas to sell Mexican parents on the scheme, broadcasting urgent appeals in Spanish on 38 radio stations. Good Citizen Tijerina will not say how much of his own money he has spent so far: "I'm just paying a little back from what the people of the community have done...
...outward appearances, Police Reporter Gene Grove, 34, and Aviation Editor Harry Franken, 35, are smart, hardworking newsmen on the daily Columbus (Ohio) Citizen (circ. 85,942). But once each week the two slip off duty and into the harness of the Columbus C.I.O. News, a weekly organ for organized labor. There Reporters Franken and Grove conduct a column called "Checking the Press." Its purpose: to appraise the performance of the Columbus daily press, including their own Citizen, A recent example of their work in the C.I.O. News: "The Citizen has more and more sugar-coated its stories, has spent more...
From their vantage point inside the Citizen's city room, Franken and Grove expanded this charter into a broadside attack on the faults of the Columbus press, peppering not only the Citizen but its bigger rival, the Dispatch (circ. 185,437): "We believe the Columbus Dispatch has been grossly unfair and inaccurate in its reporting...
Many of their shots went wild, but sometimes a snipe hit home. After "Checking the Press" exposed the high incidence of identical Citizen and Dispatch stories, the Citizen began rewriting pressagents' handouts. With considerable Tightness, Franken and Grove pointed out that a football game for charity (Philadelphia Eagles v. Chicago Bears), sponsored by the Dispatch and the Columbus Ohio State Journal, cost Ohio taxpayers $60,000 more than the take...