Word: races
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Millikin ranks only slightly below Ohio's Robert Taft on the list of targets for 1950, were sure they could beat him with either of two candidates. One was Colorado Governor William Lee Knous (rhymes with mouse), a lanky, homespun former mining-camp lawyer. If Knous entered the race, the conservative, Republican-tinged Denver Post reported last week (and if the results of a statewide poll held true), 65% of Colorado's voters would vote for a change; only 27% wanted to keep Gene Millikin on. Even if Knous could be sidetracked with a federal judgeship, the Democrats...
...Republican Party's strategy committee huddled in Chicago last week to devise a strategy for the 1950 congressional campaign, and perhaps even the presidential race of 1952. The strategy: 1) immobilize the party's moderates and liberals, 2) uncompromising opposition to everything the Democrats stand...
...announced it would soon jettison its fine collection of 19th Century art (worth perhaps $250,000), use the proceeds to buy more & more paintings like those in the current show. For the price of such a proven masterpiece as Thomas Eakins' The Biglen Brothers Ready to Start the Race, the Whitney could probably pick up the latest Koerner, and the latest Kantor, Gatch and Levine...
Through street-corner collections, donations, special campaigns, and participation in some Community Chests, the army in the U.S. takes in some $25 million a year. Of that amount, it spends more than $18 million on the welfare of men, women & children without regard for race, creed and color. With only 42,500 members, the army spends a larger percentage of its money and effort on the welfare of others than any other single denomination. No faith in the world works harder on society's lowest level...
...toughest problems of the term Monday evening--the proposed anti-discrimination clause in the new set of rules for undergraduate organizations. After long wrangling, the Council finally recommended that the Faculty outlaw the charter of any group which includes a membership clause discriminating on grounds of "race, color, nationality, or religion...