Word: connecticut
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...delegation will advocate five major policies at the convention: civilian administration of occupied areas in Japan; removal of loyalty checks on National Science Foundation scholarship holders; passage of the Lodge-Gossett Amendment; establishment of Columbia, Missouri, and Connecticut River Valley projects; and opposition to the Mundt-Nixon Bill...
...charges against the U.S. had cited cases of peonage and labor under forced contracts in Maine, Connecticut, Texas, Arkansas, Georgia and California. They had revealed that thousands of "wetbacks" (i.e., Mexican laborers who wade the Rio Grande in search of work in the U.S.) lived in squalor and poverty, sometimes were paid as little as $8 a week...
Radiomen piously defend crime programs on the grounds that they i) help the police in combating juvenile delinquency, and 2) prove that crime doesn't pay. Last week, a critic who should know told the radiomen to think up a better defense. Writing in the Monthly Record of Connecticut State Prison, Convict Le-Roy Nash (assault with intent to kill, 20-25 years) reported on 50 programs he had studied over a two-week period...
After beating New York State Teachers, Dartmouth, M.I.T., and Connecticut in preliminary rounds, Hulbert and Becker defeated Curry to qualify for the West Point finals. Vermont, Wesleyan, and Utica will also represent Region Eight at West Point against regional winners from all over the country...
...rather like the concourse of an old-fashioned railroad station except for a balcony around three sides and a built-in organ. There were large exhibits featuring New England buildings and grounds of different epochs ranged along the walls. An entire grist mill had been imported from somewhere in Connecticut: it had a turning water wheel and a rustic sign which read "Terms Cash." People occasionally, we were told, got the idea it was a wishing well and tossed coins into the water under the wheel. Across from the mill, and separated from it by a piece of tumbling...