Word: contractor
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Mouse in School. Walter Elias Disney was born on Dec. 5, 1901 on the North Side of Chicago, the fourth of five children. His father was a small building contractor who argued Debs Socialism all week and on Sunday played fiddle in St. Paul's Congregational Church. When Walt was about six, the family moved to a farm in Marceline, Mo. There, on the day when an old man down the road gave him a dollar for drawing a picture of a horse, Walt decided that he wanted to be "an artist." A few years later, father Disney bought...
...deliver a commencement address and was so struck by what she saw that she is still there: a California businessman who explained how a $9,000 bequest left to his family by a longtime Negro servant was turned over to Jones; the carpenter (now a Baton Rouge contractor) who turned the sheep pen into Jones's first schoolroom. At the program's end, Edwards explained that the school was crippled by its lack of an endowment and asked his viewers to mail $1 each to Educator Jones at Piney Woods, Miss. At week's end, nearly...
...episode was related by William Taylor Johnson of Virginia Beach, Va., a contractor who built five Powell-approved projects. In August 1950, he said, Powell came from Washington and went to the nearby Dunes Club to gamble. "He had quite a few drinks" and lost heavily, Johnson said. At dawn they returned to Johnson's home but were followed by the Dunes Club operators, who demanded $3,000 to cover Powell's losses at dice. Johnson related that he gave Powell money to pay off the gamblers...
...handed Clyde Powell $3,000 in cash [and] you never saw the $3,000 again?" he was asked. "That's right," said the contractor morosely. Powell listened with wide-eyed interest and said nothing...
...school (TIME, Oct. 4), a tall, wavy-haired man of 34 popped up to add his mite to the mess. He was Bryant Bowles of Washington, D.C., head of a nine-month-old pro-segregation group called the National Association for the Advancement of White People. A onetime Baltimore contractor who has brushed with the law over bogus checks. Bowles yet to say just how many members his organization has, but he has already collected enough money to support a race-baiting bimonthly called the National Forum (sample headline: SOUTH INDIGNANT AS JEW-LED N.A.A.C.P. WINS SCHOOL SEGREGATION CASE...