Word: bus
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Talker. In Marianna, Fla., Mamie Ruth Odum, en route by bus to marry an Air Corps lieutenant in Tampa, met a private who told her: "Give me until tomorrow noon and I'll talk you into marrying me instead...
Decision. In jampacked Washington, harried Felix Finzel, a bus driver, pulled up to the curb, put on the emergency brake, got out and quit bus driving forever, leaving a busful of argumentative passengers to their own devices...
Love On a Bus...
...Mobile, Ala., Negro Private Henry Williams had words with white Bus Driver Grover Chandler. Police said the soldier was shot and killed after he had asked the driver to lift his suitcase off the bus. Driver Chandler, 29, was charged with murder...
...Federal officials started prosecution of two Beaumont, Tex. policemen accused of beating and shooting Negro Private Charles Reco after a fight that started when Reco took a bus seat reserved for whites. The charge: violating the soldier's civil rights...