Word: progressives
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Early in the week he went before the cameras for his two-minute stint in a 27-minute Republican campaign movie (Peace, Progress and Prosperity-A Report to the People), which will be spotted on TV and at political rallies starting next month. Intermittently, he checked arrangements for the Republican National Convention; harking back to an impressive prayer he had heard in Harrisburg, Pa. during the 1952 campaign,* he personally selected the Rev. John B. Williams, mellifluous pastor of Harrisburg's big Negro Second Baptist Church, to deliver an invocation in San Francisco. Cheerfully he approved a tentative schedule...
Asked if he thought the Republican platform should endorse the Supreme Court decision on school desegregation, he said he didn't know, but pointed out that he himself was "sworn to uphold the Constitution." Then, in defending the slow progress of desegregation, he had a comforting word for the South: "Let's never forget this: from 1896 to 1954, the school pattern of the South was built up in what they thought was absolute accordance with the law, with the Constitution of the United States, because that's what the [separate-but-equal] decision...
...Bluebell and Primrose," as its passengers fondly called it, was just the kind of road that progress passes by. London was only 50 miles to the northwest, but no factory chimneys thrust their way above the quiet countryside to give the railway a new excuse for existence. Soon a few forlorn trains, carrying in all an average of four passengers a day, were all that was left of the once profitable road. Last year the British Transport Commission, which has done in many a small railroad since nationalization began, closed down the Bluebell and Primrose...
...Cambridge Drama Festival itself, it seems superfluous to comment on its accomplishment this summer. Saint Joan, its third production, is unquestionably the best so far, and one can only hope that the Festival will be around to continue its progress for many years in the future...
...absolute shower!" -an abbreviated allusion to a British army phrase which might be paraphrased as a deluge of offal. But the skilled producer-director-writer team of John and Roy Boulting (Seven Days to Noon) keeps all this nonsense spinning along blithely, has made Private's Progress a sort of British-accented Keystone Kaper, with pratfalls, chases and cuties in uniform that any nationality can relish without special training...