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After his ordination, he transferred to the Jesuit order, even though it meant starting over again as a novice. In 1911 his superiors sent him to take charge of some rundown Jesuit mission parishes in southern Maryland, with mixed Negro and white congregations. The 15 years he spent there introduced him to a major interest-helping the American Negro in his fight for equality. "I became aware," he recalls, "of the harmful effects of slavery's psychological heritage." The articles he wrote from his experiences impressed his superiors so much that he was eventually transferred to the staff...
...Workers. On the highway southeast of Augusta, Ga., houses are being towed by truck out of the 315 square miles of rundown farmland that must be depopulated. Near the perimeter of the project, 22 miles across, are woods full of trailers. Already there are more than 21,000 workers on the project, and the labor force is expected to peak...
...basis of reports from its correspondents throughout the U.S., TIME has compiled the following rundown of the present line-up of Republican delegations...
Last week the town meeting was held at Jack Junior High School on Munjoy Hill, an old, rundown, Irish-leavened working-class district. The Hill's toothless, white-haired 84-year-old Councilman Billy O'Brion afforded the meeting some rare advertising. "That section," he cried, "is well taken care of by yours truly. There are just a few windbags up there who want to explode. All these town meetings are a frame-up." After calling Portland's City Manager Lyman Moore and the rest of the council "a bunch of crooks," O'Brion announced that...
...been run by an editorial board, overseen by banks, has had no top boss. Last week it got one. In as publisher and part owner stepped Hoosier-born Ralph Nicholson, 52, who has made a reputation for picking up bargains on a shoestring. In eight years, he built the rundown New Orleans Item into a moneymaker before selling it, in 1949, at a $600,000 profit. He bought an interest in the Tampa Times and its radio station, which two weeks ago he sold for $825,000 (he still controls Florida's St. Petersburg Independent...