Word: tagging
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...perking up. Their senatorial candidate was Al Loveland, who quit his job as Under Secretary of Agriculture to campaign on the Brannan Plan, and then decided not to mention it at all. Instead, he incessantly reminded farmers of 10? corn and 2? hogs back in 1932, and tried to tag Republican Bourke Hickenlooper, a Cedar Rapids lawyer, as the candidate of big business and a man uninterested in the farmer's problems. Republicans were worried...
Captain Patrick J. McCarthy, acting Chief of Police, revealed last night that a squad of policemen will begin next Monday to tag automobiles parked illegally in the Harvard aread between midnight...
McCarthy said earlier this year that the police would not tag at all during weekends, "because we realize the unfortunate situation that visitors are confronted with." The new move will not change this decision, he said...
Almost daily, U.S. newspapers are confronted by a nettlesome problem for which they have found no final answer. The problem: Should Negroes be identified as such in news stories? Many newspapers follow the New York Times's practice, use the racial tag "only when there is a legitimate purpose to be served" or it is "a matter of pride to all of us," i.e., when a Negro is honored. But many other Northern newspapers, and almost all Southern dailies, label Negroes as such whenever they appear in the news. Last week, the Chicago Tribune was smack up against...
Leaders of Thought. The City Club, which thinks that the Negro tag helps "to set Negroes apart" and thus adds to racial tensions in a city which has some 450,000 Negroes, was not satisfied. Last week, after seven months and more letters, the club took its case to Trib readers and the "leaders of thought in 'Chicagoland' " by mailing out 2,000 copies of an eight-page pamphlet "John Smith, Negro." In it, the City Club made its case against use of the racial label, arguing that "in a paper that emphasizes crimes of violence...