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...need hardly be emphasized that the Negro is not of a natural intellectual inferiority compared to the white. As Harold A. Ferguson and Richard L. Plaut, Executive Vice Chairman of NSSFNS, have pointed out, "There is no evidence of differences between the intellectual achievement of whites and Negroes because of innate racial differences. The evidence points rather to differences in environment, to differences in socio-economic status, to differences in the educational background of the family, and, finally, to differences in educational motivation...
...neighboring child) for admission in the Clay school rather than in the all-Negro Rosenwald School in nearby Providence. Turned away by force, they returned under escort after National Guard Adjutant General J.J.B. Williams arrived in town with 500 troops. Despite an opinion by State Attorney General J. M. Ferguson that Mrs. Gordon had enrolled her children in the school prematurely and illegally, and a demand from Mayor Herman Z. Clark that the troops withdraw, General Williams announced his intention to remain as long as necessary to maintain order. Replied Mayor Clark: "We're having all the people...
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...Denmark's beautiful Greta Anderson, 29, first of the women competitors (who started half an hour before the men) was struggling back into the top of her bathing suit so that she could leave the water. Patient fans even waited for sixth-place Muriel Ferguson, 19, and platinum-haired Greta Patterson, 18, who finished eleventh. Both girls had chosen to go the distance in the nude...
...manufacture of electronic and automated devices for aerial navigation, fire control and missiles. Quesada said: "We will accent reliability of performance-a characteristic woefully lacking in all our military weapons today." ¶J W. Eric Phillips, 63, became chairman and chief executive officer of Canada's Massey-Harris-Ferguson Ltd., largest farm-implement maker in the British Empire (1955 world sales: $368 million). He replaced James Stuart Duncan, a company hand for 46 years, who resigned as president and board chairman. The post of president remains vacant. Toronto-born and educated (University of Toronto '14), Phillips...