Word: tireless
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Election of the week: Charles H. Silver, 66, Manhattan's tireless toastmaster and backer of good causes, by his fellow board members, as New York City's president of the Board of Education. Born in Rumania, Silver was brought to Manhattan's East Side slums before he was three, at 15 went to work as an office boy at the" American Woolen Co. for $2.50 a week, rose to become vice president at more than $100,000 a year. A man who has been known to raise as much as $2,000,000 at a single banquet...
With aides and escorts flapping behind him like tattered pennants, the tireless visitor sped next day to an inspection of the Pan American Union Building and a speech before the Council of the Organization of American States, later to the State Department to watch his foreign minister sign Latin America's eleventh bilateral military assistance agreement with the U.S. Only once did he mention money out loud; at a press conference, where he spoke of Haiti's need for capital (a Haitian loan is in the works at the Export-Import Bank). Throughout the whole show, Magloire...
Through Nigeria and the Belgian Congo, north to Egypt, across Pakistan and India to Burma, the tireless ambassador made tens of thousands of friends. Gifts were pressed on him-a leopard skin in India, Olympic laurels in Greece, a chieftain's crown in Nigeria...
Georgia's Governor-elect Marvin Griffin, a tireless white supremecist, was determined to get around the Supreme Court's decision against segregation in public schools. Hearing of hopeful talk in Washington that the South will eventually have sober second thoughts about the decision, Griffin drawled genially: "This business of going easy on us doesn't interest me ... I'm not for any cooling-off period. I'm for segregation, period. If the end of segregation comes 50 years from now, it wouldn't be a bit better...
Died. Israel Amter, 73, one of the founders (in 1919) of the Communist Party in the U.S.; of Parkinson's disease; in Manhattan. A pianist and composer by profession, Amter was a tireless leader of demonstrations of the unemployed, frequently his party's candidate (unsuccessful) for U.S. Senator, governor and mayor of New York. He was included in the 1951 indictment (for conspiring to overthrow the Government by force) which sent 15 top Communists to jail, but was not brought to trial because of ill health...