Word: reporter
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...liberals wisely based their argument, for the most part, not on the impersonal and narrow ground of population control, but on the contention that contraception can contribute to a happier married life. "If they are to observe and cultivate all the essential val ues of marriage," said the majority report, "married people need decent and human means for the regulation of conception. They should be able to expect the collaboration of all, especially from men of learning and science...
Indictment & Acquittal. Robb then turned to the papers' editorial side. "It was my conclusion," he says, "that our job should be a reporting job." The first full job of coverage was on a report by the State Investigation Commission condemning the city's purchasing practices. Then, in 1961, Reform Candidate Rev. Robert K. Hudnut ran for mayor against the machine-picked Erastus Corning II. The papers duly reported Hudnut's charges against the machine: that it had been controlling votes through tax assessments; that it had been making huge profits in settling tax-delinquency cases. Corning...
According to CORE's national director, Floyd B. McKissick, "Today there are only two kinds of statements a black man can make and expect that the white press will report. First is an attack on another black man calling him an Uncle Tom [a charge McKissick himself has made once or twice] or a fanatic or a black nationalist. The second is a statement that sounds radical, violent, extreme-the verbal equivalent of a riot-Watts put into words...
...back over the past months. You will begin to realize that the Negro is being rewarded by the public media only if he turns on another Negro and uses his tongue as a switchblade, or only if he sounds outlandish, extremist or psychotic." He added: "How many of you report even what middle-class Negroes do? Your social column, your engagement column, your local events column. We'd like to feel that what we did on the local scene was important. You know, we like news clippings...
...Yesterday morning I took a train to New York City and sat beside a gentleman who was reading the 1937 report of the International Recording Secretary of the World Home Economics and Children's Aptitude and Recreation Foundation of which my good friend, Dr. Mary McTwaddle, formerly of Vassar, is the American delegate. This aroused my interest and I ventured to remark that I had once had the pleasure of entertaining a group of young people who were deeply concerned with the neglected problem of the Unmarried Father. It turned out that the gentleman himself was an unmarried father...