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Kennedy's campaign pledge to send "the best Americans we can get to speak for our country abroad" caused an instantaneous stir across the nation. Mail cascaded into Washington. One of the first things the new President Kennedy did after taking office was to direct his brother-in-law Sargent Shriver to determine whether foreign governments were interested in receiving Volunteers...
...Nigger." Knight swore in court that Strange, DeFries and Blevins drove from the shooting to the home of Strange's brother-in-law, William Rozier. "They said, 'We got us a nigger.' " Then, said Knight, he drove Blevins and Strange back to the spot on Route 202 where Willie Brewster still lay. "Blevins said, 'Damon put a punkin ball [a large deer shot] into them niggers.' I said, 'How many did he get?' Damon Strange said, 'I got at least one, I'm pretty sure, because the car was swerving...
...guided by his dedication to the rule of law rather than by any sympathy for slavery, pointing out that Taney had freed the last of his own eight slaves as far back as 1821, and for most of his life was an outspoken critic of slavery. With his brother-in-law, Francis Scott Key, the Maryland attorney who is best remembered for writing the words to The Star-Spangled Banner, Taney was a prime mover in the American Colonization Society, designed to establish a home in Africa for freed Negroes...
...Bottles. The new nightclub is the most startling evidence yet of Lyons' efforts to change the image it has had ever since the 1890s. Noting the difficulty of getting light refreshment in London anywhere except in pubs, three tobacco merchants-Brothers Montague and Isidore Gluckstein and Brother-in-law Barnett Salmon-set up a teashop to give women shoppers a quiet, inexpensive place to lunch. The idea caught on, and the Lyons teashops, named for a relative and staffed by "Nippies" in ankle-length black dresses and frilly white caps, spread quickly. Twelve Salmon and Gluckstein descend ants...
...year 1942, when the Jews of a little Slovakian town incredulously learned that Hitler's pogrom had begun. Shop starts as a warm and well played village comedy. Tono Brtko (Josef Króner) is a simple and straightforward carpenter in Nazi-occupied Czechoslovakia who hates his brother-in-law, the local Gauleiter, but accepts a supposedly lucrative plum from him-appointment as "Aryan manager" and ideological overseer of a Jewish button shop...