Word: julians
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...ugly race riot in Cicero, Ill., the refusal to permit Dr. Percy Julian, famed Negro chemist, to lunch at Chicago's Union League Club even though he was invited, and the indignity heaped upon Josephine Baker here in Los Angeles are further examples of what "Dr. Stalin" ordered . . . ERIC SOKOLSKY Los Angeles...
Naturally, Dr. Percy L. Julian's name was on the list when a group of outstanding industrialists and scientists were invited to a private luncheon at Chicago's exclusive Union League Club last week. After all, Dr. Julian, "Chicagoan of the Year" in 1950, is a research director for the Glidden Co. (paint, etc.), and a top chemist who has invented, among other things, a process for synthetic manufacture of experimental drugs for treating arthritis. But when the Union League Club saw his name on the list it said he could not come to the club. Reason...
Said Scientist Julian, whose home in suburban Oak Park has twice been vandalized since he bought it a year ago: "It appears to me that organizations like the Union League Club are as directly responsible as any other agency for such un-American incidents as the bombing of my home and the Cicero riot. When individuals in high places behave as the Union League Club behaves, ordinary citizens follow suit...
...Only 3½ miles from the Oak Park, Ill. home of Dr. Percy Lavon Julian, famed Negro chemist. Hoodlums tried to burn the Julian home in November, tossed a bomb in the front yard last month...
M.P.s of all parties have been agitated by the nagging conviction that both Khamas got a dirty deal. "There can be very little doubt in anyone's mind," declared Tory M.P. Julian Amery, "that the government decided to banish . . . Seretse because of his marriage to a European woman. They were anxious to avoid giving offense . . . [but] instead of frankly stating the real reason . . . the [government] endeavored to find an alternative explanation . . ." Amery added that the government had "seized upon the difference of opinion which existed between Seretse and Tshekedi and magnified it, puffed it up," until London "could pretend...