Word: southwesters
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Sympathizing with the NAACP, the Society for Minority Rights is mainly concerned with the integration problem, though "itching to do some work on the McCarran-Walter Act, Puerto Ricans in New York City, orientals on the West Coast, and Mexicans in the Southwest." Its membership is around 25, of whom eight are active...
...nothing can leach the drama out of Bismarck's 1941 breakout, her four-minute sinking of the glass-jawed battle cruiser Hood (killing all but three of the 1,419 aboard), and the oceanwide net of ships and planes that eventually closed round the battleship. In that encounter, southwest of Ireland, Bismarck proved, in fact, almost as unsinkable as her builders claimed...
...Felt Like a Jerk." In a sense, Trimble's series arose from a sense of frustration. Arkansas-born Vance Trimble was just 14 when he started tracking down personals for the Okemah (Okla.) Leader. He never got to college, shuttled instead around the Southwest from city room to city room in the '30s before landing with the Houston Press, rising to managing editor, and in 1955 going to work for Scripps-Howard. In Washington with the title of news editor for the Scripps-Howard bureau, Trimble was tied to a desk from...
...likes best. In keeping with his policy of paying special attention to U.S. neighbors -demonstrated in his meeting in March 1956 with Mexico's Adolfo Ruiz Cortines and Canada's Louis St. Laurent, and last July with Canada's Prime Minister John George Diefenbaker-he flew southwest to Acapulco to confer with Mexico's new President Adolfo Lopez Mateos (TIME, Dec. 8) on neighbors' problems ranging from dam building on the Rio Grande to lead and zinc markets. Result: cheers and carnations strewn in Acapulco's streets for the two Presidents, marked enhancement...
Kermit Bud Laabs, comissioner of the Frontier Conference in the Southwest, bluntly opposed Griswold. "A swindle, my eye," he answered. "If athletic scholarships are a swindle why not use the same yardstick for measuring the value of scholarships awarded for other activities...