Word: civic
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Josephs, the new president, is a director of six of the nation's large business firms and a trustee of an equal number of leading philanthropic and civic agencies. Among the business groups with which he is associated are Consolidated Edison and J. P. Morgan...
...righteous citizens of the Redlands -with your 27 churches and 35 civic and fraternal organizations-you, to your everlasting shame, refused to let your children attend school because 85 little Puerto Rican and Mexican children were enrolled there . . . Sure, some of them come to school unbathed, even as some of yours. Sure, some of them don't understand our language, but they're young and teachable and citizens. They're vaccinated, they're inoculated . . . They can't contaminate your children. You can contaminate them-with the germ of intolerance...
Public housing is a useful weapon for correcting "civic disgraces," said ex-Mayor Slusser, harking back to the old controversy: "In this city, I was denied that weapon. I would not have it denied to my successors." Slusser appealed to his fellow townsmen to recognize the new public-housing program as a good example of the change in attitude toward business which the 1952 election brought to Washington...
...Mill Street AA (Leverett Branch) irregularly challenges field hockey teams from women's colleges, and the Leverett Civic Improvement Society performs many necessary odd jobs. Its major achievement was to locate the center of the universe outside McKinlock Hall's main gate...
...model has a simple arrangement that needs only a blood specimen from the suspected inebriate for its operation. Another requires the consumption of large quantities of water. Yet many still have little faith in the new devices and lament the disappearance of the chalk-line test. At a recent civic meeting, a New Orleans official gave a demonstration in the hope of inspiring interest and confidence in the Drunk-O-Meter, a type that measures the alcoholic content of the breath. Placing some 70 proof cough syrup at a handy distance, he prepared to give a before-and-after exhibition...