Word: civic
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Just when things looked blackest, Stratford's interest in its own festival finally caught on. Civic groups and private donors came through with $155,000 in gifts. Tickets sold so fast after the plays began that the original five-week season had to he extended to six. As a result, there will be enough cash left over to set up a permanent organization to make the festival an annual affair in Canada's Stratford...
...service in World War I (he was a staff officer in Harry Truman's division), he abandoned a legal career for Inland Steel, and in 24 years worked his way to the top. In Chicago and beyond, he pulled more than his weight in serving on charity drives, civic bodies and educational boards (he is now an overseer of Harvard University). In 1938, he delivered a Harvard series of lectures on labor strife and civil liberties, in company with veteran Civil Libertarian Roger Baldwin. When Harry Truman seized the U.S. steel industry in 1952, Randall, although his company...
...convertible can enter the town of Egypt, Miss, lighting a cigarette, leave it exhaling his first drag, and never know that he has been anywhere at all. But Egypt is somewhere, all right; it contains a couple of general stores and filling stations and 100 citizens as civic-minded and world-aware as just about any in the U.S. It also contains the outstanding rural church in the South...
...community will be no secluded suburbia. It is located two miles west of Columbus, between U.S. Highway 40 and the main line of the Pennsylvania Railroad. General Motors already has a plant there, and Westinghouse is building one. The village will be built around a 20-acre civic center, with a school, library, churches, playground and wooded park. It will have apartment buildings, single homes priced from $9,000 to $16,000, and a shopping center. Before the town is completed (target date: 1959), Lincoln hopes to see other communities like it springing up all over the country...
...kind of political indiscretion which only a bold lady would commit in public. There before the voters of Ohio stood exposed a picture of the Taft aristocracy: diplomats, lawmakers, lawyers, judges, civic leaders and a U.S. President -men of property with respect for property, and graduates of Yale. To the surprise of political observers, the voters did not react with the leveling impulse of envy. They turned down a passionate New Dealer and sent instead the brilliant man of lofty beginnings to represent them in Washington...