Word: respectibility
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...cases before the Supreme Court), Simon Ernest Sobeloff, 59, Chief Judge of the Maryland Court of Appeals. A son of Russian-born Jewish parents. Judge Sobeloff is a liberal Republican whose accomplishments as Baltimore's city solicitor and Maryland's U.S. District Attorney have won bipartisan respect in his state. Eisenhower selected him for the job last October, but a factional feud with Governor Theodore Roosevelt McKeldin caused Maryland's Republican Senator Butler to block the appointment for three months. When Butler withdrew his opposition, the Administration was able to 1) get a good...
...between his family and the Journal, has vowed that he would rather have his children grow up "illiterate" than read the Journal. On the other hand, Milwaukee's Socialist Mayor Frank Zeidler, who has been opposed as often as he has been supported by the Journal, has only respect for the paper: "The Journal is almost utterly dominant in the community. It's the intellectual life of Milwaukee. You discuss the issues the Journal raises [and] you hardly know of the existence of any other issues. The Journal's standard of morals, political and social, sets...
...molding Milwaukee, the Journal has also been molded by it. Milwaukeeans have never taken crime or corruption lightly. Largely the descendants of sturdy Germans and Poles, Milwaukeeans have a healthy respect for civic discipline, orderliness and hard work. While Journal stories may seem too long and stodgy to outsiders, Milwaukeeans like the Journal's Germanic thoroughness, relish its fondness for lengthy details and rich quotation...
...this slaughter and assault took place, respectively, on TV's Rocky King, Dragnet, The Mask, Front Page Detective, Martin Kane, The Big Story, Big Town, The Man Behind the Badge, and Foreign Intrigue. More people are killed each year on TV's crime shows than die annually by murder and non-negligent manslaughter in the six largest cities of the U.S. But, in one respect, television has a better record than the nation's police: every TV lawbreaker pays the penalty for his crime...
Members of last year's senior class rated 225 undergraduate activities, each listed with respect to officership, membership, and other sub-categories. The survey, conducted by James S. Davie, sociaologist in Yale's Department of Health, showed these to be the ten most desired positions: 1) football captain, 2) editor of the Yale Daily News, 3) chairman of the junior prom, 4) membership in Skull and Bones, 5) basketball captain, 6) membership in the Whiffenpoofs singing organization, 7) chairman of WYBC, 8) tie between hockey captain and swimming captain, 10) president of Phi Beta Kappa...