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Fewer than half their players on the active roster and on the injured reserve list attended. Two players who have been outspoken against NFLPA executive director Gene Upshaw and against the strike--offensive guard Ron Wooten and cornerback Raymond Clayborn--left the meeting quickly without answering reporters' questions...
...shut them down," New England cornerback Raymond Clayborn said. "Unfortunately, they adjusted and went to other things. They had a lot of perserverance...
...words spilled haltingly from the pulpit of Memphis' crowded Clayborn Temple A.M.E. Church: "All those in favor of ratification, stand." But the congregation's response was anything but faltering. The big Negro church rocked with happy cheers, the thud of stomping feet and the din of dancing in the aisles. "And all those opposed?" persisted T. O. Jones, the emotion-choked president of Public Works Local 1733, American Federation of State, County and Municipal Employees. In their delighted and deliriously unanimous mood, the question was neither heard nor heeded by Memphis' 1,300 striking garbage...
...high spots of the play include: An opening scene in which Senator Cassius Clayborn and his bootlegger are disclosed drinking gin behind the locked door of his office. The Senator is up for reelection. The Reverend Dr. Kew-back, an ardent dry, comes to his office and threatens to ruin his chances by publishing a story about a trip which his daughter made to Atlantic City with her fiance, an attache of the British Legation, unless the Senator will vote a large appropriation for Prohibition enforcement. They also argue over Prohibition. The Senator thrusts the Prohibition Bible (in which "raisin...
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