Word: crow
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...list contained no major surprises: all but the small vessels had been identified before hostilities ended. One minor surprise: the minesweeper Crow was sunk in Puget Sound in 1943 by "air attack" -a nonexplosive torpedo dropped by a U.S. training bomber sent the 97-ton craft to the bottom...
...Froebel High School, Gary, Ind., which Negroes have attended for 30 years, 500 white boys & girls struck for a Jim Crow school. After ten days, their numbers had swelled to over 800. The Gary school board ordered "legal action" against parents of all strikers, dismissal of any striker 16 or over. Said the Gary Parent-Teachers Association: "We feel ashamed. . . . [The strike is] the work of some unknown organizers of racial hatred...
Congressional Republicans, looking only on one side of the picture, thought they had something to crow about. Cried Minority Leader Joe Martin: "Now nobody should have any more doubt. Not even President Roosevelt ever asked as much at one sitting. The scenery is new and there is a little better decoration, and he does dish it out a little easier. But it is just a plain case of out-New Dealing the New Deal." Said Representative Charlie Halleck, Republican Congressional Campaign Chairman: "This is the kickoff; this begins the [Congressional] campaign of '46. For the Democrats...
Died. Carl Crow, 61, author, Missouri-born "old China hand" and founder-editor of the Shanghai Evening Post, whose shrewd anecdotal study of the Chinese, Four Hundred Million Customers, the fourth of his 13 books, made best-seller lists in 1937; in Manhattan...
...Allen B. Crow, president of the Economic Club of Detroit, reported that almost all of 200-odd business and professional leaders he had questioned consider U.S. higher education a waste of time & money...