Word: progressives
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...cities of the U.S. to acquaint its readers with a cast of characters vital to the nation's community life. In November 1947, a TIME cover story reported on New Orleans' energetic Mayor deLesseps Story Morrison and his efforts to reform a tired old city. Subsequent progress reports showed New Orleans perking up under a cover of new buildings, bridges and commerce. On the strength of such accomplishments, Morrison last week was nominated for office for a fourth time-and now faces a crucial political decision. See NATIONAL AFFAIRS, King of the Crescent City...
Even while election-night returns were rolling in, New Orleans wondered what the political future might hold for its energetic mayor. Under a new 1954 charter pushed by Morrison himself, Morrison's fourth term will be his last. He is anxious to progress in politics, will at midterm in 1960 have two opportunities to make headway: he can oppose the gubernatorial candidate put up by outgoing Governor Earl Long, or he can go after the seat held by Louisiana's powerful U.S. Senate Veteran (21 years) Allen J. Ellender. Best guess was that Morrison would...
AMONG the reporters who received - the citation (above) at Cape Canaveral Missile-Testing Center last week was William R. Shelton, longtime resident of central Florida. As TIME'S stringer since 1953, Bill Shelton watched missile progress from the beaches and rooftops near the Cape, reported time and again the dramatic story of missilery's growth. Now, as TIME'S Florida correspondent, Shelton was well-primed to provide background and play-by-play action that ended last week with the glow of a new star in the skies. While Shelton covered the Cape launching of Explorer, Washington Correspondents...
ANOTHER argument over U.S. scientific progress rages over the question: Is the U.S. falling behind in the race to develop cheap, efficient nuclear power plants to help supply the world's growing need for electricity? After years of what Chairman Lewis L. Strauss considers "impressive progress," the Atomic Energy Commission is beset on all sides-especially by U.S. businessmen who fear, as one said, that "just as little Sputnik has been worth billions to Russia, so we will fail to earn billions if we allow ourselves to slide into a secondary position." For how far and how fast...
...warfare programs, steps toward dispersal of the Strategic Air Command) have already taken hold, Johnson wrote-not without an oblique reference to the fact that much of this action began only after the committee's inquiry started. But overall, the committee urged strict attention to the kind of progress that would put the U.S. once more into high gear. Among the proposals: stronger advances in modernizing and developing the conventional Army and Navy forces, reorganization of the Defense Department, greater efforts in anti-missile missiles, and more imaginative technological achievements (such as manned missiles, a rocket motor with...