Word: randolphs
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...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...
...There is nothing worse," contended Ohio's James Middleton Cox, "than an invertebrate publisher." Stocky, round-faced Jim Cox was one of the higher vertebrates in a generation of publishers that included such well-spined warriors as William Randolph Hearst, Joseph Pulitzer and Colonel Robert McCormick. As a journalist, he practiced his preachment that newspapers "should tell the truth as only intellectual honesty can discern the truth." As a politician, Democrat Cox was also notable for intellectual honesty. And he almost achieved the classic American cycle: born on a log-cabin farm, he got to be a Congressman...
...Named retiring Under Secretary of the Treasury W. Randolph Burgess, 68, of Queenstown, Md. to be permanent U.S. representative on the NATO Council with the rank of ambassador, replacing George W. Perkins, resigned. ¶Ordered, while weekending at Gettysburg, that the hurricane-blasted areas of Louisiana and Texas (see below) be made eligible for emergency financial aid from his $10 million disaster fund...
...York Times recently front-paged an interview with Khrushchev by its managing editor Turner Catledge. At least twice since the war, Hearst newsmen have headlined Moscow interviews, one of them far more tightly tailored to Kremlin preconditions, and the other deemed worthy of a Pulitzer Prize to William Randolph Hearst Jr. and Hearstmen Frank Conniff and Kingsbury Smith. Said Joseph Alsop, who last February interviewed Khrushchev for the New York Herald Tribune Syndicate: "Any news-gathering organization has a double duty, to make money for its stockholders, but above all, to present the important facts of the world in which...
...been dispatched from nearby Camp Dodge Testing Station to recover the body. The detachment had left on the 13-mile trip in the afternoon, and was making progress at the rate of about one mile per hour. They were expected to return to the Racine House Hotel, in Randolph, N.H., early this morning...