Word: dawson
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...will be acceptable in the North and not too offensive to the South, most Democratic bosses, Northern and Southern, pooh-pooh the notion that the issue is one that cannot be compromised. Meantime, the package they hope to sell is one prepared by Chicago's Negro Congressman William Dawson, i.e., that civil-rights problems belong to President Eisenhower, since it is up to him to enforce the law. So vital a role do civil rights and the Dawson line play in Democratic strategy that in New York last week Adlai Stevenson made a Dawson-like pitch the theme...
Leaving a half-finished paper on his desk, Henry Fry '59 left by bus for Vermont Wednesday evening without informing anyone of his intentions to get away from it all. His roommate, Alec B. Dawson '59, became worried Thursday morning and notified the University police. Shortly afterward, Fry's parents flew to Boston from Mecaniesburg...
Married. Ilona Massey, 43, blonde, Budapest-born film and TV actress (Rendezvous, Curtain Call); and Donald S. Dawson, 46, lawyer and onetime administrative assistant to President Truman, quizzed by Senator Fulbright's subcommittee in 1951 about his connections with Washington influence peddlers and RFC loans; she for the fourth time, he for the second; in Juarez, Mexico...
...month, and had business cards printed that said: "The Texas Advertising and Manufacturing Co." But his most impressive piece of business equipment was a $2,000 diamond ring, which was easy to pawn to finance new ventures. Two budding newspaper publishers, D. C. McCaleb and A. G. Dawson, who were starting the Fort Worth Star in the city, hired Carter as their ad manager. He soon bought out the partners and borrowed enough money to buy out the Star's opposition, the Telegram...
...Defense Department's new security information order, which newsmen predicted would create a brownout of news from the Pentagon, last week produced a byproduct they did not expect. In Washington, Illinois Democratic Congressman William Dawson announced that his Government Operations Committee is launching an investigation to find out whether the Administration is withholding "pertinent and timely information from [the press]." A special subcommittee plans to question everyone from Syndicated Columnist Drew Pearson to the Washington Post and Times Herald's Managing Editor J. Russell Wiggins, chairman of the Freedom of Information Committee of the American Society of Newspaper...