Word: brotherly
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...tidy farm near Chickamauga, Ga., the Negro Masonic lodge held its meeting in the open air. After a picnic supper, with heaps of fried chicken and hot biscuits, everybody filed into a little church in a grove. The ladies put on a fine program of songs and recitations. Then Brother Haslerig, the chairman, called on his house guest, Brother James R. Crawford, to offer a few remarks "preferably regarding the status of our people back in Pittsburgh." But it was getting late, so the visitor from Pittsburgh just stood and took...
...Brother Crawford was glad he didn't have to make a speech, for it would have been a deception. Brother Crawford was a man with a dark secret. In four weeks and 4,000 miles of travel through the South, nobody guessed that he was really Ray Sprigle, free, white and 61, and the shrewdest reporter on the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette's staff...
...Washington's Union Station, sun-browned Reporter Sprigle, alias Brother Crawford, climbed aboard a Jim Crow coach with his guide, a Negro businessman (and the only Negro who was in on his identity). Only his guide, his family and his Post-Gazette editors knew what Sprigle was up to. "From then on," he wrote, "until I came up out of the South four weeks later, I was black, and in bondage-not quite slavery but not quite freedom, either. My rights of citizenship ran only as far as the nearest white man said they...
...Whose proprietor, John Jacob Astor, is a brother of the Observer's proprietor...
...Costs. The bargain is the result of long and careful planning by a family team. Besides 34-year-old Carl, who is the company's only salesman, the team includes his 44-year-old sister Mildred who runs the office, his 53-year-old brother-in-law Sidney Winegrad who supervises production, and his father, septuagenarian Samuel, who set up the business in 1932 and now handles labor relations...