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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Cain has shrewdly challenged Jackson to a public debate, and Jackson's advisers view the invitation with alarm, knowing that Cain is a highly effective and impressive platform player. They realize that Cain cannot explain or 'justify his Senate votes honestly. But the thing they are afraid of in debate and in November is Cain the person--the storming, snarling, collar-yanking individual. If Jackson wins in November, it will be only because the voters reject the person for the record...

Author: By Philip M. Cronin, | Title: The Campaign | 10/22/1952 | See Source »

Replying to the challenge of Edward R. Schroeder '53, HYRC president, that the Liberal Union explain its support of the Democratic civil rights record, Carrington said the party's civil rights plank was "the most forthright statement on the subject ever adopted by a major political party." He contrasted the plank to the Republican's "Splinter" in civil rights, which he called "weaker than its 1948 or 1944 stands...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Ex-HLU Head Scores HYRC On Minorities | 10/21/1952 | See Source »

...satisfactorily explain what makes a great chess player. Having a mathematical bent is not enough. The leading U.S. masters come from all walks of life, and include a psychologist, a wholesale meat merchant, a chemist, an editor, a college student, a pharmacist and a soldier. There has never been a top woman player. Reshevsky thinks that women are too easily rattled to make strong players. Of composure and self-confidence, the two most important ingredients after ability, Reshevsky has a full measure. He displayed both when a spectator asked him to explain the one-sidedness of his match score against...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Personality, Oct. 20, 1952 | 10/20/1952 | See Source »

...company. Two of his big customers, the U.S. Government and the City of New York, Field pointed out, had complained about Deutsch's activities, intimated that the company would lose the business of printing confidential material if something wasn't done about Deutsch. Could Deutsch explain his vacation activities? Deutsch gave a vague explanation that his visit to Poland and Russia was a spur-of-the-moment whim, mainly because his parents had come from those countries. Unsatisfied, Field fired Deutsch under the "neglect of duty" clause in the union contract. The A.F.L. typographical union appealed the decision...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: MANAGEMENT: Neglected Duty | 10/20/1952 | See Source »

Edmond R. Schroeder '53, president of the H.Y.R.C., last night blasted the University's "confused and confusing liberals" for their "inconsistent" support of the Democratic party as the "champion of civil rights" and "challenged" the Liberal Union to explain this inconsistency...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: HYRC Leader Attacks Dem. Record on Civil Rights, Opposes HLU | 10/20/1952 | See Source »

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