Word: neveral
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...mean to say that a newspaper article should never use the worlds Negro and colored. They are words describing one aspect of a person's physical appearance and should be used whenever that aspect is significant. If, for instance, Mr. Halloway had been designated by the Society for the Advancement of Colored Peoples as its outstanding student of the year, it would have been appropriate to describe him as a Negro, just as in an article about a man who couldn't buy shoes at the Coop because of his abnormally large foot it would be appropriate to mention...
...policy of the CRIMSON never to use race, religion, or skin coloring merely to identify persons in the news; the CRIMSON considers this a divisive technique. The CRIMSON made no consolous attempt to devised from its policy in the article and headline cited by Mr. Wolf. In this instance too much haste and too little reflection resulted in a journalistic error which has been regretted as much by the CRIMSON as by its readers...
Meanwhile, the "Secret" report of Deputy Commissioner Dwyer had broken loose in the Boston Post. The American also procured large sections of that document, and printed it in installments. Just how these newspapers got hold of the report was never revealed, but it made sensational reading. There were "Shocking revelations" of homosexual activities at Framingham, where laws were "flouted" and the state of Massachusetts "mocked." The report claimed that discharged inmates who had formed: emotional attachments" at Framingham were allowed to return for weeks at a time. In his charges against Dr. Van Waters, the Commissioner included such a case...
...atmosphere. Dr. Van Waters was applauded each time she entered the auditorium in the State House; McDowell was frequently hissed. The charges trotted out by the prosecution were staggering, but the evidence introduced was not. The prosecutors brought up only three overt instances of homosexuality; two of these were never reported to responsible officials. The third instance was handled quickly and with the best psychiatric advice...
...kind of humorist who will offer to tell you "the latest on Margaret O'Brien" or "the TRUTH about Dame May Whitty," might be the person the new Yale Record was written for. It is an unsuccessful parody on the comic book which never begins to realize its possibilities...