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Young Marshall went to Jim Crow public schools himself, then to Pennsylvania's private, predominantly Negro, Lincoln University. On the side. he worked as grocery clerk, dining-car waiter, baker. His father wanted Thurgood to study law; no law school in Maryland would accept a Negro...
Thomas Dorgan, clerk of the Suffolk Superior Civil Court, attacked the Overseers for their failure to fire Red professors in an address before the Boston Teachers Club yesterday...
...feel I must tell you about the man I hired for a bookstore . . . This seemingly made-to-order book clerk was a teacher of English in a junior college in one of the finest public school systems in the U.S. After three days, his shortcomings became evident to the rest of the force (he had "never heard of John Steinbeck," for instance); on the fifth day, when he pleasantly told me that he meant to "take a book home and read it some night because he hadn't read a book in five years," I fired him . . . The whole...
...night with a glitter in his eye, got his wrench, opened four hydrants and let every drop in the town's 183,000-gallon reservoir slosh merrily down the streets. "You're fired!" cried Cleves's Mayor Fred Pontious the next morning, while the town clerk worked to get up water pressure again. "I'd do it again," said ex-Water Superintendent Morris. He seemed spiritually refreshed...
...mico, warning waiters that any more such sabotage of the restaurant law could mean big trouble. La Epoca insisted: "The cry, 'Menú econímico for one!' must never again be heard . . . How would a waiter feel if he went into a shoe store and the clerk shouted: 'A pair of cheap shoes...