Word: localize
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Outside Mississippi, local school officials and pressure groups tried, with varying success, to implement or resist the Supreme Court decision against segregation. Items...
...Washington, U.S. District Court Judge Henry A. Schweinhaut turned down the white Federation of Citizens Associations plea for an order restraining local school desegregation already well under way. Said the court: "You are asking me to stop the wheels when the Supreme Court could have...
...Washington, the Internal Revenue Service awarded Teacher Anna Steen, 42, a rare commendation for her "outstanding contribution toward the successful admin istration of the federal tax laws." At local Banneker Junior High School, Teacher Steen, showing her ninth-grade pupils how to deal with tax forms, went after Internal Revenue teaching aids, soon sold the tax collectors on a large-scale program of teaching tax know-how to schoolchildren across the nation. Result: more than 23,000 schools used the service's materials in tax lessons last year; this year, 7,000 more schools will follow suit, save...
Congress, in cheating SBA 14 months ago, set up a revolving fund of $80 million for loans. But SBA avoids competing with private bankers, keeps its interest rate at 6% (v. about 3% for comparable private loans) and advises every applicant to try local banks first. If the bank can take part of the loan, SBA will take the balance. Its requirements for collateral are more lenient than those of private banks, but every borrower must prove his good character, have substantial money of his own invested, show that he can operate successfully. Says Barnes: "We don't make...
...Harper Woods, near Detroit, parents demanded an ordinance to prohibit a local drive-in from showing "objectionable" pictures. Reason: neighborhood children were watching the drive-in screen at night from their bedrooms-especially Jane Russell's often-banned French Line. The youngsters, claimed their fathers, were happy to scoot up to bed; moreover, they did not mind lack of sound from the film...