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Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: Poetic Justice | 4/28/1958 | See Source »

...Cabinet already appoints itself, since the new committee heads are appointed by the outgoing ones. Since the war, on the other hand, the entire organization has elected the Brooks House officers from among the Cabinet nominees, and now the Cabinet has assumed even this function, declaring the membership unfit to vote...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: By Decree | 3/5/1958 | See Source »

...ghettos, drop real-estate values, drain tax revenues, lift the crime rate,† and overburden public schools (18 are all-Negro; in 50, Negroes comprise from 50% to 90% of the student bodies). "There are 60,000 units housing 200,000 people today," says Mayor Dilworth, "that are unfit for human habitation...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CITIES: Philadelphia's New Problem | 2/24/1958 | See Source »

...left a federal court acting as a supervisor over a labor union, an awkward arrangement that responsible labor leaders can hardly view with composure. And it confirmed as president of the U.S.'s biggest labor union (1,400,000 claimed members) a man whom the A.F.L.-C.I.O. deemed unfit for leadership in the united labor movement...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: LABOR: On the Leash | 2/3/1958 | See Source »

...culmination of a whispering campaign put about, I am sure, by my brothers. They say to any newspaperman who will listen that I am a sort of wild half-wit brought up on the Cornish moors . . . They suggest that I was shuffled off overseas because I was clearly unfit to follow their pursuits of the law and politics." Actually, insisted Sir Hugh, he had won as many scholastic honors as an undergraduate at Cambridge as his brothers had when they were up at Oxford. "As to the gypsies," wrote the Cyprus governor, "well, I like gypsies. And who wouldn...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: Tangled Feet | 1/20/1958 | See Source »

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