Word: southeasterly
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
Thursday. The Washington Post wasp-ishly called Ike's press conference "a miracle of confusion" (but far more confusion was to come). The first child in the Southeast to die of polio after receiving Salk vaccine was Eugene Allen Davis Jr., 2½, of New Orleans, grandson of famed Cancer Surgeon Alton Ochsner. But New York City parents showed their continuing confidence in the vaccine: fewer than 1% withdrew permission for their children to be inoculated...
...Benton Boulevard when a car pulled up short before one of the trim houses. Out stepped the driver and made his way to a sign in the front yard of No. 3714. Watching him from the window of his darkened house was the Rev. Earl T. Sturgess of Southeast Presbyterian Church. During the week he has watched many other motorists stop to examine his sign. It looks like a For Sale sign, like those in front of many houses in the neighborhood, but instead it reads...
...idea hit Benton Boulevard hard, and Not for Sale signs began to sprout throughout the neighborhood. So far, Southeast Presbyterian has sold more than 150 of the signs at cost. The tide is turning, and the exodus to get away from Negro neighbors has slowed down considerably. Sturgess' church backed him up by voting to accept Negroes to membership. Last week a call came to Pas tor Sturgess from a couple in Johnson County, Kans. who had been considering moving to Sturgess' part of Kansas City but were frankly nervous about it. "I told them," said Sturgess, "that...
Administrative Secretary for China and Southeast Asia...
...midst of a ceremony. He was taken aboard a warship, but escaped when a bomb hit the ship. Phibun swam safely back to shore and power.) In recent years Phibun, the World War II collaborationist, has proved to be one of the best friends of the West, Southeast Asia's most militant anti-Communist (Pridi, on the other hand, has turned on his wartime friends, now mouths the Communist line and leads a band of guerrillas in Red China...