Word: boye
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...thoroughly uncomfortable. Judge Callahan was in no mood to put them at their ease. He had a few chairs placed outside the jury box for the Negroes to sit on. When one stage-struck blackamoor vacantly wandered into the jury box, his honor leaned over his bench, barked: "Here boy! Sit over there!" One of the Negroes lost no time explaining that his boss had recently shot himself while hunting, urgently needed him back home to run things. Two others guessed they were past the legal age limit of 65 for jurymen. One by one, the dusky dozen who would...
...live man is better off than a dead one, and since Haywood Patterson will probably be safer behind bars for the next few years anyhow, the defense could count the verdict something of a triumph. In fairly good spirits Counsel Leibowitz was proceeding with the case of another Scottsboro boy when the prosecution suddenly challenged written medical testimony made at the second trial by a physician now too ill to go to court and substantiate it orally. Thereupon Judge Callahan indefinitely postponed all further trials, ordered the prisoners back to jail in Birmingham...
...manicurist, a good jazz band and a fine table. His safari, entirely organized for him by experts, will cost him about $2,000 a month per gun. His white hunter will take him where the game is, stand by with an express rifle in case he misses. His black boy will have a hot bath and a cold drink ready at the finish of a day's hunting. The only things the sportsman is advised to bring to Africa with him are: dinner jacket, Springfield rifle & ammunition, alligator raincoat, chamois windbreaker. camel's hair jacket, light polo coat...
President of Pittsburgh Plate since 1928 has been Harry S. Wherrett, a onetime office boy. A great Pittsburgh booster and member of the Pittsburgh Chamber of Commerce, he is advertising his city and his company by putting the little known Pittsburgh Symphony Orchestra on the radio in a Pittsburgh Plate Glass half hour. The program, scheduled to begin on Feb. 27, will be broadcast over a 40-station NBC hookup. An added civic note is supplied by the fact that the orchestra leader, Antonio Modarelli, is a native Pittsburgher...
Milwaukeean born boy, Pat attended Macquette University in 1913 and acted at the time. . . our of college. . . and all the way to New York in 1927 . . . American Academy of Dramatic Art training. After grueling battering...