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...Worse Every Day." Muhammad's doctrine of total hate found a ready medium in some Negro newspapers, which began to exploit Negro hopes and fears after the Emmett Till case. The Pittsburgh Courier, Negro national weekly, and the Los Angeles Herald-Dispatch, booming West Coast Negro paper, not only gained attention from his personal column, but also found their circulations boosted fast by Moslems who hawked the papers on street corners as a spiritual duty. Such leading Negro Harlem politicos as Congressman Adam Clayton Powell (pastor of the Abyssinian Baptist Church) and Manhattan Borough President Hulan Jack have curried...
Reporter Sarah McClendon of the Camden (N.J.) Courier-Post and a mixed bagful of other newspapers had a special press-conference question for President Eisenhower. "It looked for a while as if Congress might wag the White House," she said, "but now it looks as if you have the power . . . to work your will on Congress. It also looks as if you were winning the propaganda war, sort of, between the Democrats and the Republicans. Would you give us some idea of how, what system you employed to do this...
...seen since its crisis began. Orval Faubus, hurrying back to Little Rock, tried to pass it off as having nothing to do with the integration issue. It meant, said he. merely that Little Rock's citizens believe in job security for teachers. But a Southern paper, the Louisville Courier-Journal, said it more accurately: "It is significant for all the South in showing that even in a community as emotion-tossed as Little Rock, a majority of the voters in time will prefer a school system with some integration to no schools...
...Kewanee (Ill.) Star-Courier, Davenport (Iowa) Democrat and Times, Mason City (Iowa) Globe-Gazette, Muscatine (Iowa) Journal, Ottumwa (Iowa) Courier, Hannibal (Mo.) Courier-Post, Lincoln (Neb.) Star, LaCrosse (Wis.) Tribune, Madison (Wis.) State Journal...
...Chandler himself in the 1955 gubernatorial primary. But long before Clements got Combs launched, the anti-Chandler field got crowded by the gubernatorial announcement of Wilson Watkins Wyatt, 53, onetime Louisville mayor (1941-45), and personal campaign manager for Adlai Stevenson in 1952. Backed by the Stevenson-prone Courier-Journal and Louisville Times, Wyatt was too much of a city egghead to suit Clements' plans...