Word: houston
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...there is one outstanding thing about the career of soft-spoken William Moreland, 61, it is that he has managed to last so long as school superintendent of Houston. Almost since he took over in 1945, his schools have been in trouble-largely because the powerful right-wing forces on the school board and in the city have been determined to keep Houston free of anything that could be remotely called "controversial." In one way or another, Houston's school board has chalked up as impressive a record of sheer orneriness as any big-city board in the nation...
With effective assistance from Houston's strong corps of Minute Women, the right-wingers have waged a continuous war against teaching about the United Nations or using any UNESCO material in the schools. They succeeded in eliminating the annual U.N. essay contest, flooded the town with anti-U.N. literature, e.g., "United Nations Seizes, Rules American Cities." They have denounced such speakers as former Rhodes Scholars Stringfellow Barr and Clarence Streit, partly because some citizens decided that the Rhodes program (launched in 1903) was nothing but a scheme to promote British rule of the world. They also kept...
ROBERT JAMES Houston...
...there was more to the Texas result than could immediately be seen before voters' ayes, as a second look at the ballots showed. In the winner-take-all field of 22 candidates, little-known Houston Attorney Thad Hutcheson, an Eisenhower-backed Republican, got 220,361 votes, placed third. Second, with 291,106 votes, Democratic Congressman Martin Dies, a segregationist and onetime Red hunter, whose conservatism runs so deep that he had labeled Republican Hutcheson a "federal-righter." The combined Republican and conservative-Democrat vote gave Hutcheson and Dies about half a million votes, while Liberal Yarborough...
...Dutch made their campaign an affair of national honor. Last week, faced with rising Dutch feeling, the U.S. State Department decided to please a NATO ally at the risk of angering U.S. airlines. It granted the Dutch two new routes: KLM will now be allowed to land at Houston on its Amsterdam-Montreal-Mexico City route, fly from Curagao to New York (either directly or through Miami...