Word: brooms
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Supreme Court decision that states must either admit Negroes to state universities, or appropriate money for an accredited university for Negroes. Texas promptly changed the name of its Negro Prairie View College to Prairie View University and doubled its appropriations. A Negro can study blacksmithing, laundering and broom-making at Prairie View-but not law, medicine or engineering...
...Hands. With his new broom, Young Henry brought in other new ideas. Shrewd enough to realize that there was a lot about automaking that he did not know, he set up a policy committee to supply him with the answers. On the cornmittee are: Labor-Relations Expert John Bugas, onetime director of the FBI's Detroit office and now the company's No. 2 policymaker; black-haired, gruff Mead L. Bricker, the production boss who "saved" Willow Run; John R. Davis, the cheerful, shrewd boss of sales and advertising; pint-sized R. H. McCarroll, now executive engineer...
...Broom & Boomerang. Neatly making use of some indiscreet remarks by the Auto Workers' Walter Reuther, Lawyer Merritt took another tack...
...writing this by the light of a 200-watt reading lamp, on an oaken writing desk, surrounded by large double windows (with glass in them) and sliding doors. This morning I awoke to find an olive-skinned, black-haired, shy young vision of Oriental loveliness, with broom in hand, busily engaged in giving my room, which I share with only two other liberators, a working over. When she became aware of my jaundiced scrutiny there ensued a series of gymnastics similar to that practiced by Stateside home guards during morning calajumpics, which is known in local circles as the very...
Kitchen Commando. In Bloomfield township, Mich., a seemingly endless, six-inch-wide column of black ants streamed into the kitchen of Gunnar Turnquist, who fought them in vain with broom and spray gun, finally won out after blazing away for an hour and a half with a blowtorch...