Word: supported
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...House of Representatives. Johnson won over nine opponents, and, even before going to Washington, made another great and good friend: Franklin Delano Roosevelt. Fishing in Galveston Bay, F.D.R. heard of the young man who had just been elected on the odd-in conservative Texas -platform of support for Roosevelt's plan to pack the Supreme Court. He called Lyndon Johnson aboard his yacht, liked the cut of his jib. When Johnson arrived in Washington, F.D.R. saw to it that he was placed on the powerful House Naval Affairs Committee. Says Johnson of Franklin Roosevelt: "He was like a daddy...
...Leona Gage, 18. who got bounced from the Miss U.S.A. throne last year for being a married woman, did her own bouncing: she divorced Air Force Sergeant Gene Ennis. Now a Tropicana Hotel show girl making $200 a week, the leggy brunette got only $25 a month for support of her two children. Another airman, moon-faced Space Man Donald Farrell, 23, of The Bronx, turned out to have an ex-bride and a 4½-year-old daughter. To Farrell, his feet barely steady after an imaginative seven-day excursion through space (in a grounded chamber in Texas...
...facts did not support such racist conclusions, and despite pressure from Southern editors, the wire services refused to give that slant to their reports on Northern school delinquency. Many Southern editors nonetheless echoed the Montgomery Advertiser's taunt that the real story was being suppressed by ''such deluded racists as the New York Times.'''' A widely distributed series of cartoons in the Nashville Banner derided "Mixiecrats" and "Bleeding Hearts," pictured the North's "objective liberal press" as burying delinquency stories on the obituary pages. When newsmen such as the Atlanta Journal...
...Educators who hold that the nation's schools have turned into public-supported playrooms (see above) got some sharp if incomplete statistical support from a survey of Texas schools by a group of ten Texas school superintendents and school-board members. Of the schools giving answers to various questions of the survey, 112 out of 232 allow private music and/or dancing lessons on school time; 188 out of 220 give credit for band time, physical education, chorus, etc.; 166 out of 218 allow athletic teams to eat up school hours with practice sessions. ¶More than half the nation...
...Crickets. Purpose of the five-year course is to train the girls to support themselves as governesses, social workers, children's counselors and above all to be confident women who "know how to grace a home." Courses include Italian literature, history, geography, science, mathematics, French. English and religion (the last two taught by Mother Mary herself...