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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Frederick J. Willman '56, president of the HYDC, announced that since his group was already fully committed to the Democratic candidates, it could not even consider the HLU proposal. "The Young Democrats are acting on their own this year," he said. As a partisan group they would lose their state charter were they to support a candidate who was not backed by the Democratic party in Massachusetts...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Democratic Club Rejects HLU Bid For Combined Meeting With HYRC | 9/29/1954 | See Source »

...will give the Southern Negro access to the education without which he can never hope to achieve equal status. It will eliminate the despotic Negro school administrator, and it will force the passing of the untrained Negro public school teacher. And the little, privately supported Negro college will lose its raison d'etre...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Negro Historian Fired for Attack On South Carolina College System | 9/29/1954 | See Source »

...menopause, it "provides a setting for a climax of all the feelings a woman may have about her uterus . . . It is expected that at the 'change of life' she will become emotionally unstable, petulant, demanding, irascible . . . frigid; will 'lose her womanhood,' will become fat and unattractive, and in a final step in her dissolution will 'lose her mind...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Woman & Womb | 9/27/1954 | See Source »

...French Ford was in trouble. The first postwar model of the Vedette, its bestseller, was brought out in November 1948 with a 67-h.p. engine* that proved underpowered for the weight of the car. It sold well until the sellers' market disappeared. Then French Ford began to lose money. Jack Reith and a team of experts were sent over from Detroit early last year to put the company on its feet. They cut labor and materials costs, produced 20,338 passenger cars in 1953 and converted a $2,000,000 loss in 1952 to a profit...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: BUSINESS ABROAD: Ford into Simca | 9/27/1954 | See Source »

...honor of their wives. The god Shiva gives them a magic powder to eat that allows each man to fish and to spy invisibly on his wife at the same time. At first the wives prove faithful, but the fishermen soon make cuckolds of each other, and inattentively lose their boat and all but their lives in a storm. In an other story, a not-so-holy man seduces the wife of a rich merchant only to find in her insatiable arms a compelling argument for the chastity he has hypocritically preached...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Hindu Mock Epic | 9/27/1954 | See Source »

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