Word: progressives
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...settlement. Since last May, on and off, Steelworkers President Dave McDonald and U.S. Steel Executive Vice President R. Conrad Cooper, head of the industry negotiating team, had glared and snapped at each other across the bargaining table in Manhattan's Roosevelt Hotel without making any detectable progress...
...prosperous half-century, tiny Belgium successfully ruled the vast, mineral-rich Congo with what seemed to be the most foolproof of colonial formulas: steady economic progress, combined with almost no political progress at all. But as the virus of nationalism spread across Africa and the newly autonomous republics of Charles de Gaulle's French Community sprang up throughout the continent, the Belgian Congo suddenly caught freedom fever. Early this year, after Leopoldville, capital of the Congo, exploded in the bloodiest race riots the colony had known in a decade (TIME, Jan. 19), Belgium hastily promised gradual independence "without fatal...
...board of education announced key reforms: building new schools in fringe areas to foster integration, tightening lax transfer policies to stop school desertions by white parents, preventing qualified teachers from taking assignments only in "easy" schools. But progress has been so "spotty and slow," the A.J.C. reported, that many new schools have been poorly located, become segregated as soon as they open. Worse, the top teachers, so badly needed in segregated schools, are able to ignore them under a tacit policy that still allows the teachers to work where they please...
...spiritual life among mature men and women. It is a scandal of modern Protestantism that young men called to the high venture of the Christian way . . . are graduated into churches where the magnitude of their vocation is macerated . . . by the pressure of the petty practices of so-called parish progress...
...construction of the Loeb Drama Center and the Harvard-Radcliffe Health Center, Radcliffe has promised a total share of $500,000. Because of the Fund's recent progress, more than half of this amount is now in hand...