Word: brickyards
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Prostitutes and Rackets. Richard sold papers, worked in a drugstore, a credit clothing store, a brickyard, an optical factory. He was hopeless at each job. He could not cover up his feelings. He forgot to say "Sir," or said it too slowly. He did not know how to get out of white people's way. One of his bosses said, "Why don't you laugh and talk like other niggers?" The other Negroes privately talked a venomous, unrelieved hatred of the whites, but joked and laughed in their presence. Richard could not. Moreover, in crises-as when...
Bricks and Stuff. Pleased with the camouflage job, the Government asked F. & K. to turn out 300,000 adobe bricks to build bomb shelters, protective blast walls around important installations. Although the firm had never made a brick, it took over a Sacramento brickyard, finished the contract in jig time, is now building up a stockpile. The Government next wanted barracks and housing projects painted. F. & K. painted them. Fortnight ago President Kleiser and Vice President Foster got together in their San Francisco offices, rosily viewed the balance sheet. For the year ended March 31, gross income...
...fair, TIME; Jim Farley's father was never a saloon keeper as you inferred but a part owner of a brickyard along the Hudson...
...James Farley Sr. leased and ran a brickyard at Stony Point, N. Y., also kept a public bar in his home, behind a store front. Being the son of a saloonkeeper is no bar to the Presidency under the Constitution of the United States...