Word: civic
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...indefatigable clubwoman, Mrs. Oscar A. Ahlgren of Whiting, Ind. belongs to so many committees, pursues so varied and vigorous a round of civic activities that, as her lawyer-husband says, "It stuns me." Last week Mrs. Ahlgren took the top honor in her field: she was elected president of the General Federation of Women's Clubs (membership: nearly...
Adding its protest to those of the chairmen and the Student Council, the Executive Board of the H.L.U. yesterday condemned the methods of the police in Thursday's riot as a "violation of civil liberties," and asked the Cambridge Civic Association to take action against those particular policemen whom eyewitnesses have identified as being especially brutal. The Executive Board declared, "There is no difference between a violation of civil liberties at the precinct level and a violation on the floors of Congress, and we oppose both of them...
Wearing identification badges (crimson and white for delegates, cardinal red for bishops), they filed into the Civic Auditorium to hear Nashville's Bishop Paul B. Kern make a keynote speech which reflected the views of the 70-man House of Bishops. Highlights: the bishops are against Communism, U.M.T., and "efforts [even among Methodists] to regiment thought and curb freedom of speech"; in favor of interracial brotherhood, the ecumenical movement, and a wider Christian social program. Said Bishop Kern: "Original Methodism was a bold and challenging defense of the rights of the underprivileged . . . This social concern is in our bloodstream...
Local Public Service: KPOJ, Portland, Ore., for helping teen-agers through Careers Unlimited, and community interest through Civic Theater...
...women in each group reported that they had five or more free hours on the last weekday before answering the questionnaire. One group reads as many current books as the other. More wives than career women read at least three magazines regularly, but career women belong to more civic and social organizations. But whatever the differences between men and women graduates, married or unmarried, housewife or career woman, the survey showed that there was one area of almost universal agreement. Regardless of what has happened to them since they left college, graduates of both sexes are almost unanimous...