Mount Dora Under Fire Over Platt Children Case
Readers nationwide respond to Time’s coverage of Allen and Laura Platt, condemning the town’s actions toward five Platt children. Editors defend press duty, call Mount Dora a Christian community needing moral reckoning and offer to coordinate support.
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Time
Allen
Laura Platt
Mary
Jesus
Christ
Mount Dora
Platt
Florida
Willis McCall
United States
Lincoln
Del
Lake County
Time Magazine
Allen Platt
Paul R. Davis
Community Church
Garden City
Kan
Editor Mabel Reese Faces Mount Dora Nose Judgment
Akron Beacon Journal notes Time Magazine profile of Mabel Norris Reese editor of Mount Dora Florida Topic. Sheriff Willis McCall accuses Platt children of mixed race over Indian and Irish ancestry prompting FBI civil rights probe rumor. Reese defends Platts and urges parental vigilance against prejudice.
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Time Magazine
Mabel Norris Reese
Mount Dora
Fla
Beacon Journal
Allen Platt
D. D. Roseborough
Roseborough
Holly Hill
S. C
Platts
Willis McCall
Groveland
National Association For the Advancement of White People
NAACP
Bryant Bowles
McCall
Denzell Platt
Laura Belle
Courageous
Topic
Sir Walter Raleigh
Roanoke
Bowles
Reese
Mabel
Akron
Ohio
TIME
Mabel Norris
Platt
Down There
Himler
Canton
My Brothers Senator Jenner Attacks Senator Flanders
The piece describes Senator Jenner of Indiana criticizing Senator Flanders for a Thanksgiving Day speech to the Soviet people in which he called them brothers. It notes Jenner’s past defense of Senator McCarthy and contrasts Flanders with a June 1951 Senate resolution urging friendship with the Soviet Union, arguing Flanders sought to extend friendship while avoiding provocation by Soviet masters.
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Senator Jenner
Indiana
Senate
Senator McCarthy
Senator Flanders
Mr. McCarthy
Jenner
Senate of the
United States
Union of Soviet Socialist Republics
Flanders
Security Risk in Government Staffing Sparks 6926 Departures
The Civil Service Commission reports 6,926 government resignations and dismissals in 13 months. Of these, 1,743 involve subversive activity or associations, none named as communist. 2,272 left for past criminal convictions, and 3,657 for other security related reasons including personal frailties and 618 for indications of sex perversion.
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United States
Federal Bureau of Investigation
National Security Agency
Civil Service Commission
Christian Science Monitor
Pledge of Allegiance Echoes in Florida Ceremony
A Florida flag ceremony at a fake county courthouse featured the DAR and American Legion presenting the flag to raise it to the sky. Schoolchildren, county officers, and reporters recited the pledge, with the writer stressing liberty and justice for all under God.
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Fake
United States
Chamber of Commerce
Daughters of the American Revolution
Tavares
American Legion of
Florida
DAR
Legionnaires
United States of America
Republic
God
Inea
Russia
Readers praise TIME editorial on Platt family fight
Letters from readers across the nation commend TIME magazine for its coverage of the Platt children case and Sheriff McCall. Guests from Milwaukee Seattle New York and other cities express support and urge continued action against bigotry with moral courage and public defense of equal rights.
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Time Magazine
Platt
Time
Sheriff McCall
Platt Children
McCall
George A. Brinsko
Washington, D. C
Knowland and the insistence on an enforceable peace
The piece argues Senator Knowland questions peaceful coexistence and warns that stalemate with the Kremlin risks gradual Western erosion. It urges the West to adopt an ideological offensive and promote enforceable peace to mobilize support and secure liberty worldwide.
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William F. Knowland
Senate
Congress
Knowland
Senator Knowland
United States
Kremlin
West
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Seattle
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American Fairey
Arnold F. Keller
Utica, N. Y
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David Szanton
New York
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John Rooney
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Jim Cotton
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Leon Hooks
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