Word: progressives
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Nixon are for the Northern urban vote. Motives aside, however, when Harriman condemed the President for taking the riots over Miss Lucy "so lightly," and when Nixon credited a great Republican Chief Justice with engineering the Supreme Court decision, the two Presidential aspirants did both their parties and the progress of integration great disservice...
Since party divisions are generally meaningless in a discussion of integration, it would be foolish indeed for either party to drag the problem into the political ring; it would also be extremely dangerous for the cause of integration, since integration will make progress as a legal, not as a political, issue. Those working effectively for integration in the South are emphasizing not that the Court decision is right, but that it is now the supreme law of the land and must be obeyed. Once the ruling on integration is lowered from its judicial pedestal, the decision will lose what sanctity...
...Mother of Us All was conceived in 1946 when Virgil T. received a commission from the Alice M. Ditson Fund, New York, to write a new opera. Gertrude immediately set to work on the libretto, though the first pains of her fatal cancer slowed progress. Virgil's only stipulation, in suggesting 19th century Americana as the subject, was that it have "nothing to do with Abraham Lincoln...
...report is published each year, along with magazine articles by members of the group giving the progress of the research. Copies are sent to economists throughout the United States and to many in foreign countries who are studying the American economy. A progress report is scheduled for April, 1956, describing last year's activity...
While the Williams meeting was in progress, the World Council of Churches met in Sydney, Australia, to weigh a similar subject: Christianity's plans and strategy for Southeast Asia. In the night sky, during the meeting, big searchlights formed a luminous cross, but the council's mood was less glowing. A note almost of supplication toward Asians and of stern self-criticism were evident. Said Yale's Dean Listen Pope: "Divided and rent asunder in its own life, the church itself speaks in broken accents and sometimes seems to add to the confusion of tongues. The nations...