Word: civically
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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After setting the current school year as the date for full integration, Superintendent Carmichael that year launched with his staff into a public-speaking campaign to explain what he was doing to P.T.A. and civic groups, veterans' organizations and church bodies. To take some of the sting out of integration, he told parents that they could choose whatever school they wanted their children to attend, provided it could accommodate them...
...CIVIC-MINDED EXECUTIVES...
...great private fortunes is gone. People no longer can give only money to community projects-they must give themselves." So says Thomas H. Coulter, head of Chicago's Association of Commerce and Industry. With this, most U.S. businessmen are in full agreement. While civic-minded executives and their companies still write generous checks (last year corporate donations of $100 and up totaled 40% of Community Chest donations, 34% of United Fund contributions), many businessmen are not content to discharge their public responsibilities with cash alone. Instead, more and more executives are donating time and talent to civic projects, from...
Partly, the new attitude comes from the general change in 20th century business philosophy. Where companies were once concerned only with products and payrolls, today's businessman feels that he is a civic leader with a social responsibility to the market he serves. "Business has a golden opportunity to demonstrate that it can be responsive to more needs of society than its material requirements," says Frank Abrams, retired Standard Oil Co. (N.J.) chairman, who spends at least two days each week on civic projects. But partly, too, the new civic-mindedness is just good hardheaded business sense. Chicago...
MEAT-PACKING CENTER will be built in Houston, in hope of rivaling Omaha and Chicago as centers of U.S. meat industry. Group of 35 civic boosters with 650 acres of land north of city have swung one deal for Armour & Co. to build estimated $20 million slaughterhouse and packing plant on property, another for Chicago's Oscar Mayer & Co. to build similar "multimilliondollar" plant...