Word: graduall
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...principle that the League of Nations suicidally repudiated, and the founders of the UN took it as a basic assumption back in 1945. During the past ten years, the U.S. Government has been fighting a rearguard action against universality as applied to Red China. The United States' gradual defeat seems much less discouraging than the realization that it has been in the wrong all along...
...Gradual Shaping." As governor...
...state senators. Collins was criticized for not "forcing" the legislators to go along by using his patronage power and his right to veto bills for local improvements. Instead, he continues to preach reapportionment as a necessity of tomorrow's Florida. Says Collins: "It takes a gradual shaping of public opinion to win the really big fights." Although he has not publicly said so. he would like another term. The state Supreme Court will have to rule on his eligibility to succeed himself. (The issue: Will his two years count as a term?) If he clears that hurdle...
...purposes of argument, I assume a rise of enrollment of 100 per cent in the next 15 years, the rise to be gradual from 1954-55. This is a reasonably good, informed guess. The Ford Foundation, in a careful study, puts the enrollment by 1970 within the limits of 5-7 million as against the current level of 2 1/2 million. That means a rise of 100-180 per cent. I believe the 180 per cent figure to be a most unlikely...
...case was protested. But to the surprise of almost everyone it was not criticized by angry Southerners but by NAACP lawyers. This was the first official gradual- desegregation order, and the NAACP said it would protest because it feared Boyd's ruling might be used as a precedent throughout the South. Yet the order struck most observers here as completely in keeping with the Supreme Court's idea for implementation of its decree-- a ruling tempered and fitted to the particular circumstances of the area...