Kroll Defends Taft Hit By Gradison Libel Charge
Jack Kroll of the Ohio CIO Council rebuts Gradison’s libel claim over the Taft voting record handbook. He argues the 212 page volume simply states Taft’s votes and public statements and invites a libel suit if false while stressing the book’s factual basis.
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Columbus
Ohio
Taft
Jack Kroll
Ohio C.lo. Council
National Ciopac
Willis D. Gradison
Ohio C.lo
Gradison
Kroll
U.S
Washington on two wars inflation and Korea
The speaker states two wars loom: Korea against Communist aggression and inflation at home. Congress must stay productive to provide protections on the inflation front, as Americans face possible wartime disciplines and wage stabilization akin to World War II.
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Congress
Gentleman From Georgia Testifies Before House Committee
William Lorenzo Patterson, a Negro attorney and vocal Communist Party advocate, refused to surrender Civil Rights Congress records to a House committee and defended expenditures as he claimed, citing alleged lynchings of Negroes in Georgia and confusing a Scottsboro case with Georgia.
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House
William Lorenzo Patterson
Communist Party
Civil Rights Congress
Georgia
Georgia State
Scottsboro Boys
Henderson Lanham
Rome
Scottsboro
Alabama
Congress Urged to Apologize for Lanham Incident
Ernest Thompson of the United Electrical, Radio and Machine Workers of America calls on Congress to apologize to the Negro people and the nation after Representative Henderson Lanham insulted a Black witness and tried to assault him, demanding disciplinary action and restitution.
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New York
Congress
Ernest Thompson
THE
United Electrical, Radio and Machine Workers OF America
Liam Patterson
Congressional Committee
Congress of the United
Lanham
Catholic Outing in Philadelphia Highlights Retreat League
In Philadelphia on July 9, members and friends joined the Blessed Martin de Porres Retreat League outing. The league honors a saintly Negro lay brother and promotes prayer and self examination under Catholic auspices. Sponsored by the Medical Mission Sisters, based in Fox Chase, the sisters work as physicians, nurses, and pharmacists in India and Africa, supporting neglected women and children in their mission fields.
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Medical Mission Sisters
Catholic Medical Missionary
Fox Chase
India
Africa
Moron Welcomes 4-H Members At Hampton Institute
About 150 Negro 4-H Club members from 17 states and the Virgin Islands visited Hampton Institute for part of the Third Regional 4-H Club Camp at Virginia State College Petersburg. President Alonzo G Moron urged interracial meetings among 4 H members and spoke after returning from the Virgin Islands and other Atlantic islands.
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Hampton
States
Virgin Islands
Hampton Institute
Virginia State College
Petersburg
Alonzo G. Moron
George S Schuyler Reviews The Union Newspaper’s Unique Voice
George S Schuyler praises The Union of Cincinnati as a rare personal weekly. He contrasts it with Georgia and Texas Cracker papers and hails Wendell Philips Dabney as a noble, gifted editor whose verse and wit define the paper’s character.
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Union
America
Cincinnati
Ohio
Georgia
Houston
Tex
Billy Mayfield
Mayfield’s
Jew
Jug
Koon
Kracker
God
Wendell Philips Dabney
Virginia
Dabney
The
W. P. Dabney
God Still Performs Miracles in Praise of a Critic King
A letter praising George S. Schuyler, famed Globe Trotter and writer, lauds his continued favorable view of the author. It notes Schuyler and family status, including Queen Josephine and Princess Philippa, piano prodigy, and references his two previous articles about the writer from 1938 and 1950.
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George S. Schuyler
Pittsburgh Courier
Schuyler
George S
Globe Trotter
King George
Josephine
Philippa
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National Cancer Institute
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By Stephen M. Young
Time Magazine
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House of Representatives
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Ursuline College For Girls
Estrelda Consuello Horton
J. Benjamin Horton, Jr
Louisville
Kentucky
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Omaha
Horton
University of Omaha
Miss Horton
E. Julia Carey
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