Word: claytons
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...Booker T. Washington's birthplace, Franklin County, Va. Support for it was led by Dixiecrat John Rankin, who said piously that it would provide better treatment for Negroes. Opposition was led by the House's only Negro members, Democrats William L. Dawson of Illinois and Adam Clayton Powell of New York, who objected to it as segregation...
...series of columns, he wrote that the local policy racket, long known as the "bug," was flourishing more than ever. Its headquarters, wrote Collins, had shifted from Atlanta to nearby Clayton County, where residents complained of "prostitution, bootlegging . . . brawling in the roadhouses and occasional slayings." Said Collins: the local cops are doing nothing about it. In high dudgeon, Clayton County's Sheriff W. L. Dickson wrote the editors challenging Collins to prove that there was anything wrong in the county. Said Collins: "That made...
Collins enlisted Baptist Minister Hoyt Farr and Methodist Minister Roland Walker as witnesses, set forth one night for the Hunt and Lido Clubs, in dry Clayton County. Collins talked his way past burly bouncers and a front door with iron bars, got a minister ("my buddy") into each club with him. In his column, he reported what they had seen: "The Hunt Club [has] a well-stocked bar ... big stacks of gambling chips and the biggest crap or gaming table you are likely to see in these parts ... At the Lido Club there is a gambling room with...
...close, but not completely accurate. There were a few mammoths studding the Indian squad, plus Johnny (bootleg) Clayton of forward pass fame. Word got around that George Sella, former Princeton football star now at the Harvard Business School, was performing for the Crimsons...
...Because the U.S. public often makes up its mind first-and the Congress, with its sensitive ear, follows-the citizen must learn the facts before he can give strong support to sensible laws. Some lasting laws that grew out of noted investigations: the Federal Reserve Act. of 1913, the Clayton Anti-Trust Act and the Securities Exchange...