Word: cracking
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Located on Warren Street in central Roxbury, Unity Bank is an unimpressive grey building with large arched doorways. Inside, the walls are just beginning to crack in some places and the bank seems small. Up the street, a drab, pre-fabricated government housing project stands alone, near completion, in the middle of a large barren lot. And directly across from Unity lies another lot--this one empty and muddy. But Unity's forlorn appearance and surroundings are deceiving...
...police have been stopping people on Charles St., trying to crack down, asking for I.D.'s," Janet said. She was stopped last week. "I had almost a pound of grass and a lot of acid," she said, "so I showed my college I.D. and he let me go. If I didn't have stuff I would have refused; they will take you in to the station then and you can get them for false arrest...
...remarkably sanguine about his chances. He claims that the number of grapes coming into Boston has already been cut by about 40 percent, and that all of the major chain stores inside route 128 have been cleared. The fruit stands and smaller stores have proved much harder to crack. And some chain stores, like DeMoulas's tend to backslide after the picketers have left. But most of the larger supermarkets, Munoz reports, fall into line at even the mention of possible picketing...
...main value is to get at the leaders of the syndicates, whose organizations will flourish even if they go to prison. Rather than assigning up to six men to tap one of the bosses' phones round the clock, Clark prefers to send his men into the field to crack down on the sources of rackets revenue at the local level...
...past, at least 18 Negroes have tried to crack Cincinnati's all-white Local 212 of the International Brother hood of Electrical Workers, but none has been better qualified or more persistent than Anderson L. Dobbins, 37. A graduate of Virginia's Hampton Institute, a predominantly Negro liberal arts college, he passed a city electrician's exam in Newport News, Va. In Cincinnati, he tried off and on for years to join the local-in vain. The union said he had to get work before he could be a member; the employers said he could not work...