Word: neglectment
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Near Forrest City, some 160 mi. from Hot Springs, there was a rude interruption. In the eyes of an approaching conductor, as well as of the Arkansas law, which provides fines for trainmen who neglect to separate Negroes from whites, Congressman Mitchell was just another Negro. The conductor ordered him to take his bags and get up to the Jim Crow car behind the baggage car. He protested, showed his ticket, pointed to a number of unoccupied sections. Vacancies or no vacancies, the conductor informed him, the only place he or any Negro could ride in Arkansas was second-class...
...well as by private practitioners. These methods have reduced blindness during the last 25 years from 26% to less than 7% in children, as shown in the diminished numbers entering the schools for the blind. To fail to give every infant an opportunity to have this protection is to neglect a duty which we owe the community as well as the child. This has nothing to do with religious beliefs. It is purely a matter of physiological and biological knowledge which can be verified beyond question by those sufficiently interested to make inquiries concerning...
Sued. John Daniel Miller Hamilton, 45, Republican National Chairman: by Mrs. Laura Hall Hamilton; for separate maintenance for herself, Son Daniel, 20 (a University of Kansas freshman) and Daughter Laura, 12; in Topeka. Kans. Grounds: "gross neglect of duty, abandonment and extreme cruelty...
...Volatile, ambitious Tony Fokker wanted to make Teterboro the No. 1 U. S. airport. He might have succeeded had not Knute Rockne's death in a Fokker transport in 1931 banished Fokker planes from U. S. skies. With Fokker and his plant gone, Teterboro sank into obscurity and neglect. Lately it has had nothing to boast but its name. Last week even that went. By unanimous vote of 25 of its 26 registered voters (one did not show up), Teterboro's name was changed to Bendix in honor of the man who now proposes to restore...
Last week word of the Thomasites' plight reached the U. S. through a letter written to School & Society by one of their number, Gilbert Perez of the Bureau of Education at Manila. After denouncing both the Philippine and the U. S. Governments for "an amazing piece of neglect and ingratitude," Oldster Perez concluded with a poem on The Thomasites. Excerpts...