Word: ets
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...churchman in the U.S. South has fought more consistently for integrating whites and Negroes in the churches and eventually in the schools than New Orleans' 80-year-old Archbishop Joseph F. Rummel (TIME. Oct. 24, 1955 et seq.), onetime pastor of a Roman Catholic parish in New York's Harlem. Last week some of his own segregation-minded flock went over his head to the Pope to protest against Rummel's "strange new doctrine." In a letter to Pius XII, the Association of Catholic Laymen of New Orleans asked the Pope to stop Rummel from taking "further...
...Force to have the very latest thing in airplanes and missiles, they do not feel quite the same way about chapels. Congressmen marshaled some Congress-like reasons two years ago to turn down plans for the Air Force Academy chapel at Colorado Springs (TIME, July 18, 1955 et seq.). So angry were their cries against the glass, steel and aluminum project that the Air Force decided to rub it all out and start over again. Last week the House debated a new plan for the chapel. It had a hard time making up its mind...
...Jewish interests before those of the rest of society. As examples of this he cites Jewish opposition to inclusion of a question about religion on the U.S. census and the lack of public Jewish support for the Catholic position in the Hildy McCoy adoption case (TIME, April 1 et seq.). "Too often . . . the question Is es gut far Iden? (How will it affect the Jews?) seems to determine official Jewish action on public issues...
...paper locals" (no rights, few members), shook down businessmen with threats of "labor violence" and picketing. So powerful grew "Mr. Dee" that two months ago, when U.S. attorneys attempted to hale him before a trial jury as the mastermind behind the acid-blinding (TIME, April 16, 1956 et ante) of Labor Columnist Victor Riesel, two key underworld Government witnesses took added five-year sentences for contempt rather than sing against Dio on the witness stand, and Johnny Dio's trial had to be postponed...
...legality of "separate but equal" facilities for Negroes. His reversal-with the stiff injunction against meddling-came on the heels of the U.S. Supreme Court's desegregation decision, which ruled out the old separate but equal precedent. And when violence and rioting followed in Clinton (TIME, Sept. 10 et seq.), it was Little Bob Taylor who sternly slapped the racial agitators with criminal charges of contempt of court...