Word: persons
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Reel Two: Onto the scene came the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People, in the person of Executive Secretary Roy Wilkins. Wilkins talked when silence made better sense. Said he at an N.A.A.C.P. rally in Jackson: "It should be said that Governor
...hungry men on the edge of mutiny, the Red commander capitulated, marched out of the valley at the head of his unarmed troops. When he was searched, the Red leader angrily cried that it was an "un-Buddhist" action. It was also a valuable one, for on his person was found a letter from Red Prince Souphanouvong ordering him not to accept integration until after the next general election...
Just last Wednesday, the President bestowed on Dulles the nation's highest award to civilians, the Medal of Freedom. Only 13 persons have received this award since it was created in 1946. Dulles was too ill for Eisenhower to present the medal in person...
...Peabody is not at all helped by the University in these essential renovations. We do this out of our pocketbook and on our own initiative. Fund raising is a difficult task but, if one sticks to it, eventually one finds the right person who is willing to pay for the revision of an area in the Museum that really needs...
...frightening thing about the censorship of the Playhouse 90 drama, Judgment at Nuremberg, by the eliminating of reference to extermination in "gas oven" [April 27], lies not so much in the censorship as in the awful realization that the person or persons responsible for this idiocy can be and are employed in policymaking positions in a major American industry, and can and do make decisions of this kind...