Word: progressives
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...candidate strode into the presidential room of the Statler Hotel in Washington amid the handclaps and cheers of 1,500 Republican women. Huge color pictures of Eisenhower and Nixon dominated the throng, surmounted by a blue and white banner that read PEACE-PROSPERITY-PROGRESS. "This is a great and glorious day for the Republican women," cried Miss Bertha Adkins of the Republican National Committee, her black sweater bedecked by an IKE diamond clip. "We're going to fight and fight hard for your victory." The candidate smiled warmly and made a few informal remarks...
...delegates heard Democratic National Chairman Paul Butler and Pennsylvania's Republican Representative Hugh Scott. Scott outlined the progress of the U.S. Negro under the Eisenhower Administration, e.g., completion of desegregation in the armed forces, desegregated dinners at the White House. Answering Adlai Stevenson's call for desegregation by 1963, Scott concluded: "The time to meet injustice is not [in] 1963, because it happens to be the 100th anniversary of the Emancipation Proclamation. The time to meet injustice...
...technique of cadging better quarters. Seeking out a local inhabitant, explained Cowell, "we'd just ask for some little corner to put our cots in; then gradually we'd move up into the master bedroom. It is always after you meet the wives that you make progress. They all start becoming mothers wh :n they find you have no place to sleep...
...Jack Hawkins and Farley Granger. For producer, NBC turned to Anthony Quayle. who had just starred in Marlowe's Tamburlaine on Broadway. Though compressed into 90 minutes, the Shavian comedy kept the refreshing crackle of ideas crisply delivered (the central theme: in 20 centuries man has made no progress save in mechanical ingenuity), and offered a witty appraisal of human strength and weakness. But the TV audience, according to Trendex, gave the show only a trifling rating of 16.5-roughly on a par with the Mickey Mouse Club...
...human conviction that there are no whales like the old whales, the aging athlete usually likes to dream of the good old days when the guys in the game were really tough. He will curl a lip at the new generation, and complain that things and progress are not what they used to be. Then, in the words of that famed righthanded Arkansas philosopher, Jerome Herman Dean, he will ask himself, "What the hell is?"-and go back to his dreams...