Word: tional
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...farmer by profession," says Bishop O'Hara. He was born 68 years ago in a family of eight children on a farm near Lanesboro, Minn. After a chaplaincy in World War I, he was assigned to Eugene, Ore., where he founded the Na tional Catholic Rural Life Conference to promote Catholicism in rural U.S. Today the conference has 10,000 members and operates on a yearly budget of about $30,000. Explained Bishop O'Hara last week...
Greying, blue-eyed Walter White, for 16 years executive secretary of the Na tional Association for the Advancement of Colored People, has a skin so light that he frequently has to explain that he is, in deed, a Negro. Last week, in the Saturday Review of Literature, Propagandist White talked openly about a subject many Ne groes are careful to avoid: the Negro who lives secretly as a white man. Wrote he : "Every year approximately 12,000 white-skinned Negroes disappear - people whose absence cannot be explained by death or emigration. Nearly every one of the 14 million discernible Negroes...
...Chicago a convention of the Na tional Association of Purchasing Agents studied signs of a different color. Said Roy Haberkern, vice president of R. J. Reynolds Tobacco Co.: "We are told that within six months after the mills get into full operation steel backlogs will be wiped out and a highly competitive market will develop...
...International Longshoremen's & Ware housemen's Union, the American Communications Association, the Inland Boatmen's Union, the Na tional Marine Engineers' Beneficial Association, the National Maritime Union and the National Union of Marine Cooks & Stewards (all C.I.O.), and the Pacific Coast Marine Firemen, Oilers, Water-tenders and Wipers (independent...
Busiest and happiest of all was the Na tional City Bank of New York, which took the lead in pressing for reopening...