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News to One. Returning hastily from his vacation, Mayor Robert Wagner broadcast a radio and TV appeal for calm and promised that he would do his utmost to redress legitimate grievances, but he warned that the city would not tolerate lawlessness. "Law and order," said the mayor, "are the Negro's best friend-make no mistake about that. The opposite of law and order is mob rule, and that is the way of the Ku Klux Klan, the night riders and the lynch mobs...
...most ignoble chapters in its 179-year history. Under Editor John Thadeus Delane (1841-77), Prime Ministers had good reason to feel they had the Times tucked into their pockets. When World War II loomed, the Times obediently joined Whitehall's chorus of appeasement. "I did my utmost," said Editor Geoffrey Dawson of Hitler and his crew, "to keep out of the paper anything that might hurt their susceptibilities...
...defeated HCUA report on HSA, which had recommended splitting Burke's job, came under fire from Perry. He noted that the Council plans to "investigate us again, as they have been for years." He urged the utmost in cooperation, however, for any group that seeks information about...
...Crimson swimming team entertains the Columbia tankmen at 2 p.m. in the IAB today, and even though coach Bill Brooks is doing his utmost to be a gracious host, the Lions are certain to have an unpleasant stay...
Arthur D. Trottenberg, Assistant Dean for Resources and Planning, disagreed. Speaking from the floor, he called Sekier's contention "the utmost nonsense" and attributed the weaknesses of university architecture to "poverty of expression among architects...