Word: granting
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...relationship protected by law in twelve states. Last week, "greatly disturbed" because New York State does not grant its working newsmen this legal safeguard, New York State Assemblyman Edwyn E. Mason proposed a bill that would make reporters immune from prosecution for concealing their sources...
Congregational Christian Church leaders are determined to give integration more than moral support. They are offering cash. Any Congregational church that hesitates to integrate its members for fear of financial losses can appeal to the Board of Home Missions for a grant, the board announced this week. At the same time, the mission board made two contributions of $2,500 each to the National Council of Churches' department of racial and cultural relations and to the legal-defense fund of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People...
...This grant, given annually, is divided among professors and instructors in the Chemistry Department for use in individual research, a member of the Department explained. Unlike other stipends, the du Pont gift is given with no restrictions governing its use. Thus it fosters much work in chemistry that would not otherwise be possible, he added...
...convicts at the grim Regina Coeli prison, where one inmate asked his help in getting an amnesty from the government. "I'm afraid that's out of my competency," replied the Pope. "I don't know what influence I might have in getting the government to grant an amnesty." Then he added: "But I have some influence in a much higher place, and perhaps you might be interested in an indulgence...
...East. In 1955, when the U.S. State Department refused to extend the 60-day visa of the Moscow Patriarchate's Archbishop Boris to permit him to serve as Exarch for North and South America, the Communists retaliated by expelling Assumptionist Father Georges Bissonnette and refusing to grant a visa to his successor, the Rev. Louis F. Dion...