Word: chapelful
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Bargain & Collect. Powers had a reputation to maintain as the newspaper-union boss who could do the most for his men. He called "chapel" meetings of his printers in the composing rooms of the Daily News and the Journal-American at hours neatly chosen to interfere with two editions of both papers. Powers was apparently hoping that the publishers would retaliate by locking the printers out - a move that would save him from the onus of calling a strike. But there was no lockout; the next move was up to Big Six. Then the publishers conceded. They offered Powers...
...dawn each morning last week, a procession of anxious diggers trudged five miles to the chapel in Cristalina to light a candle at the feet of St. Sebastian, praying that he would guide them to a rich strike. Many other amateurs, discouraged by the boomtown prices and the depth of the veins, were selling out. Said one: "God put the crystal near the surface, but the devil pushed it to the bottom." As the amateurs quit, professional mining outfits were moving in to buy up their claims and get down to where the devil pushed the crystal...
...marchers were to follow the same route attempted two weeks ago from Brown Chapel African Methodist Episcopalian Church in Selma, across the Edmund Pettus Bridge, where the first march was bloodily halted by helmeted state troopers and mounted possemen, then onto a four-lane, divided stretch of U.S. Highway 80. All but 300 marchers were to drop back at a point 17 miles out of Selma, where the highway narrows to a two-lane, 20-mile strip of piny woods and dismal marshes...
After only a day in either city, the sight of a line of state troopers forty men long and two men deep, with billy sticks poised, was--if still remotely terrifying--no longer shocking. Outside Brown's Chapel in Selma one could usually count 10-20 state troopers' cars. On Jackson St. in Montgomery half a dozen unmarked cars were constantly milling about. City police walked aimlessly through the street, trying to learn when there would be a march, and where the demonstrators would head. Plainclothes city policemen, sometimes making feeble attempts to pass themselves off as newsmen, photographed everyone...
While all these negotiations were going on, the would-be marchers-1,500 strong-congregated in and around the Brown Chapel. Despite the federal court order, sentiment was strongly in favor of marching. A white minister arose to declare: "No matter what happens, we can never get away from Selma, Alabama, again-never!" Princeton University's Religion Professor Malcolm Diamond announced that he would march, quoted Federal Judge Thurgood Marshall, a Negro, as once having said, "I am not defying the sovereignty of my country. I am making witness within the framework of the law of my country...