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...payment, would be worked out in a friendly spirit with United Fruit, he emphasized, especially since the sale would have to be amortized over a long period of credit from the company. Figueres reported that he had already outlined his plan to United Fruit's board chairman, Thomas Jefferson Coolidge, when Coolidge visited San José last month. "I explicitly told Coolidge," the President said, "that it is not the intention of my government to nationalize the industry by expropriation or any violent measure . . . The sale plan is a simple suggestion to sow the idea in the minds...
...long after he became governor of California in 1943, Warren laid down a rule: "I don't want to hear of any of my department heads refusing to hire anyone for reasons of race, color or creed." Among Warren's own appointments was Edwin L. Jefferson, the first Negro ever named to California's Superior Court. To each of the California legislative sessions, from 1945 through 1953, Warren proposed, in one form or another, a state agency to assure fair treatment of all races. The proposal was rejected each time, but Warren personally stuck to the stand...
...speaker-in-chief of the Jefferson-Jackson Day dinner (East Coast division) last week, Adlai Stevenson had to do a couple of jobs which many Democrats still found passing strange after all their years in office: 1) help get his own party out of hock, and 2) take a critical look at the party in power. He attracted 1,400 of the faithful into the ballroom of Philadelphia's Bellevue-Stratford Hotel at $100 a head. There they heard Stevenson use his gift for bright English to express an exceedingly dim view of the state of the world-especially...
Died. Newell Jefferson ("Jeff") Cravath, 50, onetime (1942-50) University of Southern California football coach whose teams won four Pacific Coast championships before he was ousted because he had "lost the big ones"; of injuries suffered in an auto accident; in Calexico. Calif...
Happily, while the old hands were reworking old formulas, the year also saw a succession of unusually good first novels. Ovid Williams Pierce in The Plantation and Jefferson Young in A Good Man wrote stories about life in the South that were distinguished by grace, dignity and good writing. George Lanning joined their company with This Happy Rural Seat, a mature story about middle-aged Americans. James Baldwin became a new Negro writer to watch with Go Tell It on the Mountain, a powerfully lyrical novel about religious fervor and human isolation in Harlem...