Word: edwards
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...EDWARD W. SCHMIDT Chicago...
...Legion's California delegates: the Santa Clara chapter of 40 & 8 had lost its charter after admitting an American of Chinese ancestry. In the 90° temperature of Minneapolis Auditorium, the oratory came to a boil. "Those who would introduce bigotry in our organization," cried the Rev. Edward Goodwin, chaplain of the Hawaiian Department, "are bastards of Satan!" But when all the shouting was over, the American Legion voted 1,650 to 1,388 to sustain the 40 & 8 Society in its lily-white stand...
...troubles, when the British put them to work tracking and killing Kikuyu terrorists. But in Tanganyika the Masai, disorganized and disfranchised, have been increasingly at the mercy of settlers encroaching on their grazing lands. Last week, as a long step toward doing something about it, the Masai installed Edward Boniface Mbarnoti as the first chief in history with federal powers over all tribesmen in Tanganyika...
...council of elders, Mbarnoti is a big (6 ft., 180 Ibs.), 28-year-old schoolteacher who speaks excellent English and whose only ambition-until the elders tapped him last September-was to go to England to study. The son of a slave freed by French Roman Catholic missionaries, Edward herded cattle until he was nine, then, as his father's "love son" (or favorite), was sent to school. Converted to Catholicism, he ignored most of the various age rituals of the Masai (e.g., Masai aged 17-27 take turns sleeping in the communal hut with the tribe...
...reaction to Carey's letter was-or should have been-entirely predictable. Replied Illinois' Republican Representative Edward Derwinski to Carey: "You and too many other autocratic union bosses are guilty of the un-American philosophy of class hatred." New York's Republican Representative Steven Derounian asked Carey for 10,000 copies of the letter "to distribute them to the residents of my district so they can see how you operate...