Word: ralph
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...RALPH L. POLK Chairman, Board of Directors R.L. Polk&Co. Detroit...
...rally which starts at 1 p.m. will include as speakers, Ralph Schoenman of the Bertrand Russell Peace Foundation, Fred Halstead, presidential candidate of the Socialist Workers' Party, and Noam Chomsky of M.I.T. There will also be an open microphone for G.I.'s who participate in the march...
...interoffice battles raged, with Luce generally taking a middle course-he saw himself as liberal and mug wump, opposed to fascism as well as left-wing radicalism. Ralph McAllister Ingersoll, managing editor of FORTUNE, general manager of Time Inc. and later publisher of TIME, also quarreled with Luce politically, but more often about publishing matters. In 1938 Hitler was chosen to be TIME'S Man of the Year (the criterion, as always, was news impact not moral worth). Since no adequate color photograph was available, TIME had to settle for a rather innocuous picture of Hitler in khaki. Brooding...
...Memory Drum. The company has a long tradition of statistical work, reaching back to horse-and-bug-gy days. The railroad had just pushed across Michigan when a young New Jerseyan named Ralph Lane Polk arrived in Detroit to seek his fortune peddling various patent medicines. He found that the Iron Horse, steaming along at speeds of 40 m.p.h., had changed the world of traveling salesmen, enabling them to visit merchants in several towns in one day. Polk compiled a Gazeteer for Michigan in 1870, listing the names and addresses of shopkeepers within walking distance of railroad depots...
Only last evening one of the Negro critics of the course, having earlier informed me that he was not among that segment of the course's critics who simply reject a white scholar teaching "black history," unwittingly contradicted himself. This occurred during a panel discussion between the novelist Ralph Ellison and Alvin Poussaint, a Negro phychiatrist, at Brandeis University. Dr. Poussaint argued the ridiculious line I attacked in my letter in Tuesday's Crimson, namely, that no white scholar could or should teach a so-called black curriculum, and the Social Sciences 5 critic with me at the panel turned...