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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...down to the latest monograph in the October issue; astounding -sounding jargon or the absence from the 450-page book of ay experimental evidence cannot balk them. The appeal of the quick sure-cure is not surprising. Hubbard's claims are as disarming as an old-fashioned patent-medicine label...

Author: By Daniel Ellsberg, | Title: CABBAGES & KINGS | 10/24/1950 | See Source »

...follow the New York Times's practice, use the racial tag "only when there is a legitimate purpose to be served" or it is "a matter of pride to all of us," i.e., when a Negro is honored. But many other Northern newspapers, and almost all Southern dailies, label Negroes as such whenever they appear in the news. Last week, the Chicago Tribune was smack up against the problem. It is the only daily paper in Chicago that still labels Negroes in almost all news stories, and Chicago's potent, civic-minded City Club wanted to know...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: John Smith, Negro | 10/9/1950 | See Source »

...seven months and more letters, the club took its case to Trib readers and the "leaders of thought in 'Chicagoland' " by mailing out 2,000 copies of an eight-page pamphlet "John Smith, Negro." In it, the City Club made its case against use of the racial label, arguing that "in a paper that emphasizes crimes of violence as the Tribune does, there are inevitably many news stories connecting Negroes with such crimes. The inference is drawn by readers that Negroes have an inherent biological tendency toward crime [which] no reputable . . . scientist will support." Where the Negro crime...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: John Smith, Negro | 10/9/1950 | See Source »

...moved. It moved along the path of recent court opinions which found Communism a clear and present danger, branded the basic aims of Communism as criminal in intent. It was aimed at Communists and their organizations and fronts, requiring them to register the names of their members and label their propaganda for what it was. President Truman said that he would veto it as an infringement of civil rights...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE CONGRESS: There Is a Danger . . . | 9/25/1950 | See Source »

...package contained only a new pair of shoes. The other-a big, official envelope with the stamp of the Ministry of Public Instruction and the label "Very Confidential"-contained copies of the final examinations that 90,000 public liceo graduates up & down Italy were to take next day. As chairman of one of Rome's examination commissions, Professor Levi was charged with their safety overnight...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: Absent-Minded Professor | 9/11/1950 | See Source »

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