Word: schoolchildren
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Knowing the Rules. Rowan started his tour at McMinnville (pop. 7,599), and found it little changed. The drugstore would still not serve him water in a glass, gave him a paper cup. Negro schoolchildren could still get books from the public library only by sending their teacher for them. But there were a few differences. Amid the shanties of "Niggertown" were rows of neat new houses which Negro veterans had built, with federal...
...attempted assassination of President Truman by Puerto Rican Nationalists last November, flew to Puerto Rico last week. There she received from the hand of Governor Luis Muñoz Marín a medal and a gift of $4,816.59, made up of pennies given by Puerto Rican schoolchildren. Said Mrs. Coffelt: "I, like any other American, cannot hate a country for an act committed by one of its citizens. I shall always remember the kindness shown to me by the Puerto Rican people...
Marxism for Schoolchildren. Another terrorist tactic is to enter a school, cut the telephone wires, hold up the teacher, go into the classes, make fiery Communist speeches to the children, take away their identity cards and, after 20 minutes, skip. Identity cards have been issued because of The Emergency, and they apparently bother the terrorists, who are trying to break up the card system...
...spent a full life as conductor, impresario and master of ceremonies bringing classical music to U.S. listeners, found time to do some composing of his own (The Man Without a Country); in Manhattan. During the '30s, his Friday-morning radio hour introduced the masters to millions of schoolchildren. "Realizing the joys that music can bring to men," he once said, "I have done my utmost to spread its gospel...
Berlin's RIAS (Radio in American Sector) last week released a letter by a Soviet sector listener describing an "entertainment" for parents by East Zone schoolchildren...