Word: ralph
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...heartening sign for the church: there are 1,500 native African priests, including 25 native bishops, supplementing the work of 9,000 Catholic missionaries, and the native clergy is growing at the rate of 200 to 300 new priests a year. U.S. Catholics were chided by Father Ralph Wiltgen of the Society of the Divine Word for a "certain smugness" about their financial contributions (about 70% of the total) to Catholic missions and for the small U.S. representation (5%) among mission clergy and lay workers...
...White House early in the week came samples of messages from 21 prominent civil rights men, e.g., U.N. Official Ralph Bunche, retired Baseball Star Jack Robinson and A. Philip Randolph, president of the Brotherhood of Sleeping Car Porters, urging the Administration to stand pat for a strong bill. From such leading Negro newspapers as the Norfolk Journal and Guide and New York's Amsterdam News came outspoken criticism of the N.A.A.C.P. leaders who had agreed to the weak bill. Said the Amsterdam News: "When we find the N.A.A.C.P.'s Secretary, Roy Wilkins, sleeping in the same political...
...C.I.O. President Walter Reuther as those who ran first and fastest (TIME, Aug. 19), Mitchell traced the recent history of the civil rights bill: "The House sent President Eisenhower's sound civil rights bill to the Senate with its approval. The Senate then, in the words of Dr. Ralph Bunche, made the bill 'disappointingly weak' by crippling that provision which would ensure equal voting rights for all Americans . . . And then, before the House had a chance to make any move to put strength back in the bill, a substantial body of onetime civil rights supporters backed down...
...Born. To Ralph Kiner, 34, onetime Pittsburgh Pirates' home-run king (lifetime total: 367), who retired in 1955, and Nancy Chaffee Kiner, 28, onetime tennis star: their first daughter, third child; in San Diego. Name: Katherine Chaffee. Weight...
...request-and three other similar pleas since 1955 have only been moderately successful-the Administration threatens mandatory Government controls. Grudgingly, most of the oil importers promised to cut back rather than risk controls. But oilmen will probably suffer less than the U.S. consumer. Charged Vermont's Republican Senator Ralph Flanders: "The quotas will surely result in a price rise in the near future-in fact, that is the purpose of the order...