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With that, the city went to work for its schools. Day after day the Star printed cartoons, pictures and editorials urging the people to vote "Yes." Locals of the C.I.O. and A.F. of L. bade their members vote the same; so did the real-estate board, the Merchants Association and the Chamber of Commerce. A lawyer named John. Mc-Evers set up a campaign committee, soon had 9,000 block workers ringing doorbells all over town. Roman Catholic Bishop Joseph Marling threw his weight in favor of more money for the public schools...
...want FEPC. But New York's Congressman Donald O'Toole, who reminded the House of early U.S. discrimination against the Irish Catholic, vehemently upheld FEPC. "We are [God's] creatures," he cried, "and we are entitled to receive from each other the love He bade us give." Harlem's Congressman Adam Clayton Powell, pilot of the Administration bill, quoted Daniel Webster in railing against the McConnell substitute: "A law without a penalty is simply good advice...
...morning last week Defense Secretary Louis Johnson bade him Godspeed; the President climbed into an Air Force Constellation (his DC-6 Independence was undergoing an overhaul) and flew to Fort Bragg, N.C., to cast an old cannoneer's eye over the wonders of the new Army...
Last week, as Perón bade him goodbye at Moron airport, Ambassador Bruce could tell himself that he had fulfilled Harry Truman's 1947 orders to "go down and make friends with those people." He could also say that he had made some dent in Argentine economic thinking...
...Unified Germany. The next day, America's crack occupation troops bade their commander a military farewell. On the vast parade field at Grafenwohr, once a training ground for Adolf Hitler's Wehrmacht, 11,000 U.S. soldiers snapped and wheeled through a 90-minute review. A battery of 105-mm. guns barked a 17-gun salute. From a jeep the 52-year-old general stood stiffly and watched the display, a hint of tears in his eyes. Overhead, in a brilliant, cloudless sky, 60 Thunderbolt fighters formed a gigantic C-L-A-Y as they roared past, and then...