Word: civic
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Chicago's ornate Civic Opera House one day last week, Secretary of Agriculture Ezra Taft Benson arose before 3,000 members of the American Farm Bureau Federation to talk about farm problems and policy. Just before he spoke, the "Deltones," a girls' trio from Delta County, Utah, sang "Santa Claus Is Comin' to Town." But Ezra Taft Benson made no effort to pose as a man with a snowy white beard and a bag full of gifts...
...salesman and assistant branch manager for. the Manufacturers Life Insurance Co., 4) a salesman-distributor-stockholder in a gift-package company, 5) a successful author (Otto Graham, T Quarterback), and 6) one of the busiest and most civic-minded speechmakers in the Cleveland area...
...circulation, the morning Cleveland Plain Dealer (285,540) and evening Cleveland Press (310,858) run almost neck and neck. But in one other respect the Plain Dealer is no match for the Press; Press Editor Louis B. Seltzer is Cleveland's leading citizen, its biggest civic and political power, and an all-round asset to the Press which the Plain Dealer has never tried to match. Last week the Plain Dealer made its first try. As its new editor, the Plain Dealer named Wright Bryan, 48, tall (6 ft. 5 in.), civic-leading editor of the Atlanta Journal...
...attributed this recession to the fact that government cuts in expenditures and increased savings by the people would offset public expenditures on consumer goods and increased activity by state and local governments on proposed civic improvements...
...questioned several of the Harvard Law School students who were active in disseminating the "Save Plan E, Vote No" propeganda for the "good government" Cambridge Civic Association group. It was also sponsored by the "non-partisan" Cambridge League of Women Voters. Several of the students had come from communities west of the Hudson River. Not one knew that P.R. had been declared unconstitutional in some states; that 24 cities had experimented with it during the past 50 years; that 16 of the 24 cities had repudiated it; and that only 8 cities in the United States now employed it. Only...