Word: councill
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
After nine years in the forefront of the battle against disease, sulfathiazole is being retired. Last week, the American Medical Association announced that its Council on Pharmacy and Chemistry has withdrawn acceptance of the drug because it causes too many bad reactions: rashes, fever, blood disorders. Despite these drawbacks, sulfathiazole was lavishly used until such newer drugs as sulfadiazine and penicillin came along. Doctors may still prescribe sulfathiazole, but will want to be sure that the patient can take...
Race in the News was published by Atlanta's Southern Regional Council, Inc., one of the South's most effective race-relations groups. Dr. George Sinclair Mitchell, the council's executive director, thought up the idea and collected 1,000 clippings of "racial news" from Southern papers. Then 29-year-old Associate Editor Calvin Kytle of the weekly Calhoun, Ga. Times turned out the booklet...
...minds of many, with 'rape.'" In 4½ months, the respected Macon News and Sunday Telegraph-News ran 153 headlines identifying Negroes with violence or lawbreaking; in the same period, in 801 stories about white lawbreakers, only four headlines mentioned their color. The council's conclusion: "Crime is peculiar to no race, religion or national group. [Mention race only if] this information is a relevant part of the news." Relevant: NEGRO RIGHT TO PRIMARY VOTE UPHELD. Irrelevant: NEGRO ACCUSES WIFE OF STOVE-THROWING. Some Northern newspapers might copy...
Actually, said the booklet, the average Southern editor is not as anti-Negro as he sometimes sounds; he is just trying to give readers "what he thinks they want." The council's counsel : give them what the editor thinks they ought to have. "The responsible editor . . . need not indulge in special pleading for the Negro. He need merely apply the same news values . . . the same respect for accuracy, the same sense of fair play and good taste...
...Progress. In Sparks, Nev., after motorists complained of denting their fenders in downtown parking areas, the city council agreed to remove the 45-year-old hitching posts...