Word: hendersons
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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President-elect Elmer Henderson sounded the war cry: "Let's face our battle of Armageddon . . . No other profession, in . . . this country, has been brought under such violent attack by those ambitious for political power over...
Imported Virus. Sitting at the back of the room as Henderson spoke were platinum-haired Clem Whitaker and his copper-haired business partner-wife, Leone Baxter, who were hired last February at $100,000 a year to give the medical profession's account of itself to the U.S. public. Whitaker & Baxter reported on what they had done since "the virus of socialized medicine had spread from decadent Europe and taken deep root here...
Among the most important decisions expected are those on civil rights and interpretation of the fourteenth amendment. At the time of its adjournment in June, the court had not acted on the Henderson case involving segregation on southern railroads, or the disputes concerning segregation in southern universities. The Henderson appeal came up from the Baltimore Federal District Court which ruled that, since there was no evidence of inequality, Henderson, a negro, failed to show where his rights as a citizen were abridged. Thus, the Supreme Court must decide whether, as Henderson alleges, "inequality always accompanies segregation...
...Henderson decision will necessarily affect the opinion on southern college policy. The schools involved claim that they provide "separate but equal" facilities for non-white students...
Died. Mrs. Alice Corbin Henderson, 58, poet and first associate editor (under Founder Harriet Monroe) of Poetry Magazine, which first offered Carl Sandburg, T. S. Eliot and Vachel Lindsay to a high-3row audience; of a heart ailment; at her ranch near Santa...