Word: brotherhood
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While Columbus Negroes were demonstrating that brotherhood, the Ohio delegation cooled its heels for two hours in the Neil House Hotel. Kenny O'Donnell had sent word: "Be on time. These are delegates." But for Kennedy, it was more important to bring out the crowds, to show the Ohio politicians his pulling power on the streets. The delegates, he figures, will come over only if he proves to them that he can electrify the electorate. Until June 4, his aim is not to wrestle delegates to the ground in non-primary states, but merely to keep them out of Humphrey...
Died. William P. Kennedy, 76, head of the 200,000-man Brotherhood of Railroad Trainmen from 1949 to 1962, remembered for a paralyzing strike during the Korean War; in Minneapolis. "We've won a tremendous victory," crowed Kennedy, whose call for a national strike in 1950 prompted the Government to take over the roads. Finally, in May 1951, the railroads threw in the towel, signed a contract giving Kennedy's men a $97 million-a-year wage increase...
...suburb west of Chicago. In March, this conviction led Traugott to resign his five-figure income and position as manager of the Sears, Roebuck store in Englewood, a Chicago neighborhood that is predominantly black. Now jobless, he intends to dedicate himself full time, in any way he can, to brotherhood between the black and white communities...
...Pickett's being discouraged, that not enough had been done to achieve racial equality. and the reason he was running for President was to restore the faith of all the Robert Picketts. "I am a soul brother, too," Humphrey said. "I have a soul, I believe in human brotherhood." Pickett then stood and began clapping. In a moment the entire audience was applauding wildly. Pickett grasped Humphrey's hand, later volunteered to work for his campaign...
...perfect, but anyone who thinks that honest and sometimes wrenching efforts were not made to open up the new Methodist Church is mistaken. The old churches were patronizing at their best as concerns the racial issue. The new church is energetically and sacrificially dedicated to making Christlike brotherhood real. There will be foot-dragging and agonized cries from those who are backing into the future, but it is a new church...