Meany urges two steps on rights for housing and jobs
George Meany of the AFL-CIO proposes a presidential executive order on housing and a national fair employment practices law to curb racial discrimination. He stresses practical action to turn moral rights into material justice, linking school desegregation to housing desegregation and federal rules against discrimination in funding and guarantees.
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Fair Practices Law
New York
George Meany
Afl-Cio
Meany
Conference On Civil Rights
New York Central Labor Council
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San Francisco Bank Heist Ends In Clean Getaway
Police say three gunmen robbed the Bank of America Union and Webster branch of 62,693 dollars. They abducted two officials and family members, then forced entry to the manager's home and compelled him to drive them to the Lupori residence before returning to the bank and escaping. Hostages were bound. tellers aided by Lupori helped bag cash. The suspects vanished and remain unidentified.
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San Francisco
Bank of America
Larkspark
Joseph Finocchio
Golden Gate
Finocchio
Millbrae
Henry Lupori
Lupori
Indians Launch Drive To Bar Nuclear Tests
A committee of private Indian citizens begins a nationwide drive on Armistice Day to collect one million signatures for a petition banning nuclear tests. Spokesman J. J. Singh says the effort avoids political or cold war aspects, focusing on humanitarian grounds. Members include Vijaya Lakshmi Pandit, former UN General Assembly president and Nehru’s sister.
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New Delhi
J. J. Singh
India League of America
New York
Singh
Vijaya Lakshmi Pandit
U.N. General Assembly
Nehru
Kennedy to campaign for Democratic candidates in 1962
President Kennedy plans to return to the campaign trail in 1962 to support Democratic candidates. The New York Times cites sources saying a hard fight is needed to protect the House majority and that Kennedy misses the personal contact and morale boost of campaigning.
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NEW York
Kennedy
New York Times
Washington
Joseph Loftus
House of Representatives
Mob stormed French embassy in Rabat fires flag victory
In Rabat Moroccans stormed the French embassy Saturday setting gardens aflame. The mob raised the Algerian Muslim rebel flag over the building amid the unrest.
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Rabat
UPI
Johnson Warns of U S Retaliation If Russia Begins War
In McKinney Texas Vice President Johnson told a Veterans Day audience that the United States would retaliate if Russia started a nuclear war. He cited hundreds of manned bombers Polaris submarines and tens of thousands of nuclear delivery vehicles while urging peace. The speech covered U S strength and readiness.
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Texas
Khrushchev
Russia
Johnson
U.S
Soviet Union
Polaris
U. S
North Texas
Congress
Sam Rayburn
Bonham
Name swap for Stalingrad echoes Moscow denaming
The city once called Stalingrad is now Volgograd as Moscow drops Stalin’s imprint. The change follows other renamings like Stalinsk to Novokuznetsk and Stalino to Donetsk. Volgograd spans both banks of the Volga and houses about 300,000 residents. The 1943 battle there checked German advances under Paulus.
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Volgograd
Joseph Stalin
Palmiro Togliatti
Italy
Moscow
Stalin
Stalinsk
Siberia
Novokuznetsk
Stalino
Donetsk
Volga
Paulus
Castro Urges Instructors to Expand Socialist Support
In Havana Prime Minister Castro addressed revolutionary instructors urging broader acceptance of the socialist revolution among Cubans, aiming to deepen public backing and ideological alignment with government goals.
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Havana
Castro
Wreath Laying By Kennedy Honors Unknowns on Veterans Day
President Kennedy laid a wreath at the tomb of the Unknowns in Arlington National Cemetery to honor soldiers who died in major wars and those who served and live. He then spoke briefly at a nearby amphitheater as a 21 gun salute rang out and an honor guard stood at attention.
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Washington
Kennedy
Arlington National Cemetery
U.S
Nehru calls for yearlong moratorium at U N
United Nations delegates weighed Prime Minister Nehru's proposal for a one year halt to political bickering and full cooperation in political cultural and other fields. While admired for its aim the plan faced doubt over feasibility given disarmament debates and colonial questions. Analysts differed on its practicality and specificity.
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United Nations
Nehru
General Assembly
U.N
U.S
Adlai Stevenson
India
Russia
Molotov slips out of Vienna to Moscow in quiet exit
Former Soviet foreign minister V. M. Molotov, 71, traveled from Vienna to Moscow after a secretive departure. He and his wife boarded the Vienna Moscow express near Vienna, crossed into Czechoslovakia, and were seen briefly in Warsaw before continuing home.
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Moscow
V. M. Molotov
Communist Party
International Atomic Energy Agency
Atoms - For - Peace Organization
Molotov
Paulina
Czechoslovakia
Hohenau
Politburo
Joseph Stalin
Khrushchev
Warsaw
Prentis Calls Iowa Tax Unit a Dumping Ground
Former State Sen. X. T. Prentis, appointed to the State Tax Commission, blasts the agency as inefficient and a patronage dumping ground. He vows to fire underperforming staff, seeks personnel reclassification, and cites $530000 in delinquent sales tax accounts as evidence of inaction by the commission and its two fellow members.
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State Tax Commission
X. T. Prentis
Commission
Prentis
Norman Erbe
Andrew George
Waterloo
John O'Connor
Strawberry Point
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