Word: socialism
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Crisis fear that Billy Graham's scheduled crusade in Manhattan [TIME, March 12] will embarrass or further prejudice against religion "the modern 'enlightened' but morally sensitive man," let them conduct their own crusade. If they feel that their message is more relevant to the broader social issues of the day, and they are better able to discern the real sins of such a Babylon as Manhattan, let them come out of the editorial sanctuary and tell what they know...
...nearly 1,000,000. Zeidler has created a human rights commission, plumped hard for public housing in Negro districts, and in 1952 (after a maniac-who happened also to be a Negro-shot and killed three white persons) asked the Milwaukee Crime Commission to study Negro economic and social problems...
Meeting in London with the colony's Governor Sir Patrick Muir Renison, Britain's Colonial Secretary Alan Lennox-Boyd agreed to a new plan that would pour about $58,240,000 into social and economic development in the next five years. The specific points covered by the plan included completion of the 130,000-acre Boerasirie irrigation and drainage project, rebuilding the main road along the seacoast from the Surinam border to Georgetown through rich sugar-and rice-growing areas, completion of a 4,000-unit housing scheme, and rural electrification. More than half the cash...
...After nine hours of agitated public hearings, the Board of Regents of the University of Colorado voted to suspend social fraternities and sororities with racial or religious discrimination provisions in their national constitutions or initiation ritual unless the provisions are dropped...
...more PhD's a year, who could in turn educate 750 more AB's, it would be much more difficult to expand the college. He pointed out the physical difficulties, such as overcrowding in the Houses and libraries; the educational difficulties, such as unwieldy class and tutorials; and the social difficulties, such as the loss of a feeling of student cohesiveness...