Word: sending
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...week deciphering Ave's stand on civil rights. Four months ago Harriman was demanding that the President act on the Supreme Court's desegregation decisions. Testing the tenor of his camp at that time, a spokesman for the Southern wing reported back: "They're ready to send B-52s over the South." In May, for the edification of the Americans for Democratic Action, Harriman (who likes to be thought of as another Franklin Roosevelt) imagined what F.D.R. would have done. "He would have had a fireside chat and rallied men and women of good will together...
...pluses and minuses and gave the answer: Airman Twining could go. Ike made it plain that the U.S. has no intention of reciprocating with an invitation to Bulganin and Khrushchev, no intention of lowering its guard. With these essential provisos, the President thought it both safe and desirable to send an observer of Nate Twining's caliber to Moscow to cock a practiced eye at the Red jets and, perhaps, to probe into the deceptive chinks of peace...
FREIGHT-CAR SHORTAGE will be eased by Federal Court decision against "slow freight" merchandizing by lumber companies. Upholding ICC, court ruled it illegal for shippers to send lumber to Eastern markets by roundabout routes while still negotiating sales with prospective buyers, thus using freight cars as rolling warehouses...
...Club is completely autonomous, and since the whole South is currently suffering acute growing pains over this issue, the situation would seem to call for time and toleration. Ten years ago, it will be recalled, most Harvard Clubs in the South were not even looking for white students to send to the College. One may hope that the rapid growth of the past decade will continue bringing a speedy end to adolescence...
...best and bloodiest middleweight fist fights in years, Utah's Gene Fullmer and France's Charles Humez cut each other up like feuding samurai for ten rounds at Madison Square Garden before Fullmer won the decision and, perhaps, a chance to send Champion Sugar Ray Robinson back to the nightclubs...