Word: harms
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...cities, according to the FBI tally for 1956, Negroes, making up 10% of the U.S. population, accounted for about 30% of all arrests, and 60% of the arrests for crimes involving violence or threat of bodily harm-murder, non-negligent manslaughter, rape, robbery and aggravated assault. In one city after another, the figures-where they are not hidden or suppressed by politicians-reveal a shocking pattern. Items...
Farm. Ignoring panicky pleas from farm-state Republicans, the President put principle over politics, vetoed a Democratic bill freezing 1958 supports at 1957 levels. In his veto message he explained why the bill would do farmers more harm than good. From the land came kudos for his courage...
...baffling that they defy classification by the most determined nosologist. Yet the term "childhood schizophrenia" has stuck. There has been an enormous increase in this diagnosis, now "fashionable and much abused," says Dr. Hilde L. Mosse in the American Journal of Psychiatry, and it has done great harm to a lot of children...
...mainly because of bad weather. But at Atlanta's hard-selling Rich's department store, sales are even with last year. Businessmen count on their growing market, lower labor costs and the efficient new plants built by migrating Northern industry to carry them through the recession without harm. "I take a real deep breath of relief." says Southern Co. President Harlee Branch Jr., whose company still has record demand for electric power, "when I get away from those damned pessimistic New Yorkers...
...Board Chairman William McChesney Martin agreed in testimony before Capitol Hill's Joint Economic Committee that 1) the U.S. economy is basically healthy and can be expected to recover its zip without drastic Government medication, and 2) strong hypodermics, such as a deficit-producing tax cut, might do harm by stimulating inflation fever. Inflation, warned Chairman Martin, will be "one of the most crucial problems we have to face over the next couple of years." Said Anderson: "I can conceive of situations where tax reductions might appropriately be brought into play, [but] the present condition of the economy does...