Word: colgan
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...early 1950, the American Friends Service Committee launched a new "job-opportunities program" in Chicago, headed by Thomas Colgan, whose first step was to talk hiring practices with Field's the bellwether of State Street's big four (the other three-Mandel Brothers, Inc., The Fair, and Carson, Pirie Scott & Co.-also hired no Negroes). Field's would not budge, though, ironically, Colgan's program had financial backing from Marshall Field Jr., grandson of the store's founder and president of the Chicago Sun-Times. Undaunted, Colgan worked quietly on the other stores. In July...
Last winter a Pittsburgh Negro, Richard S. Dowdy, complained to Colgan that he had written to Field's, asked for a job in finance or merchandising, stated his qualifications (B.S. and M.A. degrees in research economics from Duquesne University), but neglected to say that he was a Negro. After encouraging replies, Dowdy went to Chicago only to be told by Field's that it was "lamentable but true" that the store hired no Negroes. Dowdy's complaint was handed to Chicago's Commission on Human Relations, whose enforcement powers are limited to public contract but whose...
...Madden of Connemara-a distinction that may not mean much to a Smith of Brooklyn or a Brown of Grand Rapids but apparently means a lot to a Madden of Connemara. "There isn't a better class of fighting man from Oughterard to Letterfrack," shrills Mrs. Colgan, the old lady who introduces Recruit Madden to the rebel army just in time for him to get in a few licks in the Easter Rising. And sure enough, Madden quickly proves himself the sort of character who looks his best in very curt sentences, e.g., "Madden floored the bricklayer with...
...Colgan doesn't care two straws about the fate of Ireland when she urges Madden into the insurgent ranks; she just wants him to keep an eye on her adolescent son, who has been swept off his silly feet by patriotic ardor. And when the rebel song rings...
Hunter threw two touchdown passes in the last period, the first to Dick Colgan and the second to Hager, to give the Elis their 36-point total...