Word: progressing
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Bull by the Horns. For 26 minutes the President belted away. Would he care to comment on Stevenson's claims that the G.O.P. is attempting to seize partisan credit for civil-rights progress-for example, in the armed forces? Ike would and did. Frequently using the pronoun "I," which he generally shuns, he spoke feelingly of his efforts to foster military desegregation during World War II. As far as he knew, Ike said, he was the first combat commander who ever incorporated Negroes into white units on the battlefield, and "they all got along together." Thus, when the Administration...
...upward, cattle are becoming more valuable than cotton, industry outproduces the farmer, even Republicans are running candidates. Against this gathering avalanche Herman intends to maintain the Bible-shouting, "Anglo-Saxon," segregated status quo he has always enjoyed. He believes firmly that he can halt the pulsing pistons of political progress. He believes because, reared on politics, he has found that the processes of Georgia government can be manipulated to achieve the things the Talmadges want and that old Georgia wants. If they cannot be had within the law, they can be had around and under...
Teele pointed out that like movements have been started in the past, and have made no progress, since they would be hurting the large and powerful farmers' co-operatives in the Mid-West...
...concentrating on the urban areas such as Birmingham, Atlanta, and Miami, however, Harvard Clubs in those cities have made remarkable progress in "selling" their school. This job has been made easier because often the Harvard graduate occupies a place of responsibility and influence in his city. In addition, the University has co-operated by sending top-level members of the faculty into the South to talk with students...
...parity only in the market place. That's what I spoke for at Kasson four years ago: the attainment of that full share for the farmer . . . That's what I have been working for. I shall keep on working for it. And the facts show good progress...