Word: civic
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...basement of Seattle's Civic Auditorium, delegates to the biennial convention of the A.F.L.-C.I.O. Bricklayers Union were happily engaged in the normal pursuits of a beer bust one night last week when a pair of topflight Democratic politicians dropped in. He hoped, said Adlai Stevenson, that his amiable and popular companion, Washington's Democratic Senator Warren Magnuson, would be re-elected by a big majority. Then he added: "And I hope he can carry somebody else along with...
...announced expanded hospital, prison, and tutoring services last night. New activities will emphasize closer co-operation with civic and University leaders, said Peter K. Gunness '57, the association's president...
...civic level, the Cambridge Chapter of the Red Cross in giving a first aid and nursing course for hospital volunteers. Since the Massachusetts Prison Board has encouraged the prison tutors to expand their work, Walpole Prison had added intramural athletics to its program...
...thousands of organizations and associations that have, over the years, stemmed from that early American precedent - the New England town meeting. We have long had a particular interest in these groups, which millions of men and women have joined voluntarily for fraternal companionship, to effect some form of civic betterment or for simple self-improvement. Through John Scott, we have a sense of participation and membership, while we contribute what we are best qualified to give: information and food for thought, collected by a gourmet around the world...
...challenge Washington's leadership and to give democracy a meaning in the twentieth century that conforms to that of Douglass in 1889. In The Souls of Black Folk, 1903, he gave a restrained but trenchant criticism of the Washington school of thought and advocated the right to vote, civic equality and the education of youth according to ability. "By every civilized and peaceful method," he urged, "we must strive for the rights which the world accords to men, clinging unwaveringly" to the great words of the Declaration of Independence. In 1905 he founded the Niagara Movement and in the following...