Word: equality
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...come together and in a relatively concentrated time period. Taken in the aggregate, two tuition, three board, and two room rent increases have been decreed in the last three years. The most recent announcement, that room rents will increase by 15 per cent next year, follows an raise of equal percentage in room rents which went into effect in the fall...
...signing of the two artists is the first action taken by the Cambridge Drama Festival since the Metropolitan District Commission awarded it the right to operate at MeBAC this season. The award was protested by the Group 20 summer theatre of Wellesley, which demanded an equal share in the new theatre...
...shut down any school ordered to integrate by district courts were struck down by the Virginia Supreme Court as a violation of the state constitutional provision requiring Virginia to preserve an efficient system of free public schools. Simultaneously, a federal court ruled that the massive resistance statutes violated the "equal protection" clause of the Fourteenth Amendment...
...conciliate, cut down, modify or negotiate constitutional rights in voting, schools, or Jim Crow?") Fellow Presidential Hopeful Jack Kennedy offered another version of last session's Kennedy-Ives labor bill before the Administration could get its own to Capitol Hill. Meanwhile, House Democratic leaders, with no fanfare but equal determination, settled down in typical conservative fashion to shape the course of government...
...Egalitarianism: "That all men were created equal is one of the great fictions," argues Griffith, and has become as absolute as "the divine right of kings." Where excellence is snubbed as undemocratic the second-and third-rate rule...