Word: civilizations
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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HERE IS THE ENEMY, read the headline in the monthly newssheet (circ. 65,000) of the White Citizens' Councils of America. Inside a black-bordered box were listed 74 "organizations appearing in House and Senate committee records as favoring 'civil rights' and anti-South force legislation during 1957 and 1959." Among them: Amalgamated Meat Cutters and Butcher Workmen of North America, American Veterans Committee, Anti-Defamation League of B'nai B'rith, N.A.A.C.P., Catholic Interracial Council, the Protestant Episcopal Church, Improved Benevolent and Protective Order of Elks of the World, the Methodist Church, United Automobile...
Also included for good measure: the U.S. Commission on Civil Rights, Department of the Air Force, Department of Justice, Department of Labor, Department of the Treasury...
Although Edinburgh-educated Nyerere dislikes some parts of the new agreement with Britain, he has agreed to support it for four years before taking the next step, full African self-rule. He even insists that the civil service (2,800 whites, 300 Africans) remain predominantly British until Tanganyikans can be trained, and acknowledges the permanent right of Tanganyika's whites and Asians to have a minority share in government. Blessed with a sensible African leader in a territory with no large white settler population, Britain was happy to make Tanganyika its first testing ground for self-rule in East...
...erase the taint of monopoly. For years, the Star and the morning Times (and the combined Sunday Star) imperiously forced subscribers to take both papers and made advertisers buy space in both or stay out. In 1955, the U.S. Government broke up this trust by decree, prompting dozens of civil damage suits brought by vicinity papers and advertisers claiming injury. The cost in embarrassment was great, and that was not all. The financial strain caused the Star to postpone an ambition of many years' standing to print its own Sunday supplement, and kept it from a new effort...
Died. Walter Williams, 117 by his own reckoning, and the last living veteran of the Civil War, with a story of a career as a Confederate foragemaster; in Houston. Recent investigations have indicated that Hero Williams was only five years old when war broke out, but his fame is secure : President Eisenhower, pursuant to a July act of Congress, declared a day of national mourning, and Fourth Army units will lead a parade to Franklin, Texas, where Williams will be buried with full military honors...