Word: york
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...TIME really wants to shed some tears, how about the banning of Little Black Sambo and Tom Sawyer in New York City schools by the ever race-conscious N.A.A.C.P...
...After protests from the N.A.A.C.P. and others, the New York City board of education dropped Helen Bannerman's Little Black Sambo (TIME, Dec. 24, 1945) and Mark Twain's The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn from its lists of books "approved" for use in New York City's elementary and junior high schools. Tom Sawyer passes the board's muster...
...problems of U.S. continental air defense, conferred with NATO's Supreme Allied Commander in Europe Lauris Norstad (see FOREIGN NEWS), with the visiting chiefs of Western Europe's Common Market, its Coal and Steel Community and its Atomic Energy Community, had a nonpolitical chat with New York's visiting Governor Nelson Rockefeller, rounded it all off with 54 holes of weekend golf at Gettysburg...
...first time since he went into politics, New York's Republican Governor Nelson Aldrich Rockefeller, one of his party's most marketable presidential prospects, last week ventured out of his home state for a frankly political appearance. For his audience, Rocky picked one of the nation's toughest: Washington's Republicans-only Capitol Hill Club, whose 1,300 members, centering around the G.O.P. members of Congress, have seen many a bright-looking Republican come...
...specifics, his performance would have set the Republican pros to sniggering contemptuously at another man. Pointing to New York's Representative John Taber, senior Republican on the House Appropriations Committee and as given to penny pinching as Governor Rockefeller is to free spending, Rockefeller said he had "learned all I know about budgets from John Taber." Pointing to New Jersey's Representative James Auchincloss, Rockefeller said that "anything Charlie Auchincloss does is usually good for Republicans," joined in the general laughter when he discovered he had used the wrong name...