Word: equality
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...stand in the Janesville, Wis. public square, beside a flower bed vivid with petunias and marigolds, and beneath a dingy World War monument, look into the inscrutable, tooth less faces of a small group of old people and murmur that he was going to work for "full employment and equal opportunities"; only he could deliver a major farm speech in an industrial center (Janesville)-with only 150 (cityfolk) present. Somewhat symbolic, moreover, was the King Turkey Day in Worthington, Minn., which featured a parade of 150 live, gobbling turkeys and the Democratic vice-presidential nominee, who managed an apprehensive smile...
Robert Wagner Jr. soaked up the lessons of practical politics too. He recalls the 1932 Senate race, when the Republicans nominated a distinguished Jew, George Z. Medalie, to run against his father. A Brooklyn Democratic leader feared for his heavily Jewish district-but he was equal to the occasion. He dug around until he found a picture of the Senator's German grandfather, a Lutheran minister whose full beard strongly suggested a rabbinical calling. A yarmulke (skull cap) was easily inked in; the picture received wide distribution among the district's Jewish voters. Then the district leader spread...
...Statistics reported last week that Canadians earned more dollars, produced and consumed more goods and services in April, May and June than in any other quarter in history; gross national production for 1956 was headed for a record-smashing $29.5 billion-a handsome $2.8 billion above last year (and equal to a per capita rate...
...integration, asked none of the testifying teachers to suggest improvements. If the hearings demonstrated anything in their dreary recitation of well-known facts, it was simply that Negroes have suffered educationally and culturally in comparison with whites, and that the gap must be closed before they can compete on equal terms in the schools...
...enterprising Texan has built up a booming business carrying truck trailers up and down the canal by barge, thus eliminating dockside loading and speeding up the delivery of goods to inland points. To compete with low-priced local brews, Milwaukee's Schlitz floats 8,000-case bargeloads (equal to 45 boxcars) to Houston by inland waterway from the Great Lakes, saves 40% on transportation costs. Most of the oil industry's steel drilling pipe comes in by barge at $9 per ton v. $17 per ton by rail. The savings are so impressive that Union Carbide & Carbon...