Word: crosses
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Cross national chairman, E. Roland Harriman of Groton, Yale ('17) and Brown Brothers, is a selfless charitarian of long standing, but he is not noted for diplomacy. He was in a particularly undiplomatic mood last week when he arose at Los Angeles to address the 1954 convention of the Red Cross. "Developments in recent disaster operations," he said severely, would force Red Cross to return to its prewar policy of making special fund drives to help stricken cities rather than continuing to furnish aid out of its general fund. As a case in point, Harriman pointed to Flint, Mich...
...desperate effort to retard the national development of federated giving (e.g., Community Chests). Undoubtedly, it is more than a coincidence that Flint and Michigan have been notable in the successful application of this principle." One Flint resident said that he would never give "another nickel" to Red Cross. Mas sachusetts' Governor Christian Herter de manded an apology to Worcester. Fund officials in all three cities acknowledged that they had turned only token sums over to the Red Cross. But they pointed out that the special funds went toward replacing losses suffered in the storm, edu cation of orphans, patching...
...years primary elections in California have been colossal exercises in political confusion. Under a cross-filing law adopted in 1913, Republicans and Democrats filed freely in each other's primaries, and the voters could never tell from the ballot which candidate came from what party. As a result, many a candidate said as little as possible about his party affiliation, and won both sides of the primary. Last week Californians went to the polls under a new primary law and set a different pattern...
...Queen proclaimed the fifth honors list of her reign. Among the 2,500 British and Commonwealth citizens on the roster: old (80) Author Somerset Maugham, who joined the exclusive ranks (limit: 50 members) of the Companions of Honor; sharp-tongued Poetess Edith (Facade) Sitwell, 66, now a Dame Grand Cross of the Order of the British Empire; solid Sir Gladwyn Jebb, 54, now Britain's Ambassador to France after four years as Britain's chief delegate to the U.N., a big enough man to bear the ponderous title of Knight Grand Cross of the Order of St. Michael...
SELLING STUNTS of the big soap and flour companies will be investigated by the Federal Trade Commission. Specific target: cross-couponing, the system under which one company gives away coupons redeemable in another company's products. FTC will decide whether such combinations between big companies hurt smaller competitors...