Word: journalism
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Braden, a copy editor on the Louisville Courier-Journal from 1950 until five minutes after his conviction, brought the house for Andrew Wade IV, a Negro. He then transferred title to Wade, and a series of threats and cross-burnings ensued. Two months after Wade and his family moved into the home, it was dynamited. An indictment was obtained against a friend of Wade's charging that he blew the house up. This indictment has not been tried, but Braden was tried and convicted of sedition, on charges asserting that he brought the situation about to exploit the segregation issue...
Died. Maria Clopton Jackson, 93, widow of C. S. ("Sam") Jackson, doughty founder (in 1902) of Portland's independent Oregon Journal (circ. 182,257), longtime board chairman of the Journal Publishing Co.; in Portland...
...empty seats in Boston late in October, despite the presence on the platform of such stalwarts as Joseph P. Kennedy, James Michael Curley, and Republican State Chairman Elmer C. Nelson. Even in Wisconsin, according to some reports, McCarthy's popularity has diminished, although letter writers to the Milwaukee Journal still insist: "Every loyal citizen of Wisconsin can feel proud to be represented by this courageous patriot." The fact that the patriot has made a point of championing the Wisconsin dairy farmer against the "open war" on farmers of the Eisenhower Administration perhaps helps to account for some of the favorable...
Griswold then cancelled a meeting scheduled with Puente and told the tax expert that he was no longer interested in his plan, McInerney said. The Wall Street Journal announced several months later that the Law School would issue a series of publications on Latin American tax structures...
...JOURNAL OF THE FRANKLIN INSTITUTE devotes an entire issue ($1) to an elaboration of the ideas concerning science and society which Franklin elaborated with elementary but nice two-plus-two clairvoyance...