Word: crow
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Pending in U.S. courts was a suit by the Philadelphia local challenging its ouster as contrary to the Federation's constitution. But the ousted groups arrived in Detroit in a conciliatory mood, prepared to eat large quantities of crow. They offered to drop their suit, promised to wrangle no more. Federationists overwhelmingly refused to seat them, cheered tumultuously when President George S. Counts cried: "We are extremely fortunate at this juncture that we have had the courage to do a job that should have been done years ago. ... If Stalin should make peace with Hitler tomorrow, as he might...
...infirmities in Walter Reed Hospital. >> Eugene Meyer lost his well-kept temper when his plane hit a storm, a tray-bearing stewardess hit the floor, and a chicken leg came to rest on his trim grey head. >> John L Lewis' maid refused to sit in a Jim Crow seat, got arrested, said "Mr. Lewis will fix you for this." >> Representative Clare Hoffman (R., Mich.) asked that "applause" (to his speech) be stricken from the Congressional Record "because there was none." Speaker Sam Rayburn suggested making such omissions permanent and universal. >> Eleanor Roosevelt offered to refund her half...
...since early this spring, the Harvard crow was rowing with beautiful precision. Those who watch it from launches are hard pressed-to find anything about which to quibble, although Tom Bolles can generally find something which doesn't please him. Eight oars hit the water outboard with chronological precision, and following a powerful pull-through, dip cat with scarcely a splash, all leaving the water at exactly the same moment. Inboard the crew is not quite as balanced, but what few faults there are seem to counteract each other, and the shell's run, even at very high strokes...
...nails in deep mourning, knobby legs without stockings, splayed feet in battered old white moccasins, carried a U.S. flag. Others carried signs bearing anti-convoy sentiments; excerpts from Presidential speeches promising no foreign wars. A big Negro, third in line, better dressed than anybody else, carried a sign "Jim Crow is NOT Democracy." He liked to lecture. "This here's no democracy," he would say pontifically, "when a fellow like me, just because he's black, can't get a job in the factories getting rich off of defense contracts." Behind the pickets the White House grounds...
Last week C.I.O. had something to crow about. After a four-and-a-half-year campaign, every major auto manufacturer was now ClOrganized. In a National Labor Relations Board election at the Lincoln and River Rouge plants, some 80,000 Ford workers were given the chance to decide whether they wanted C.I.O. or A.F. of L. to represent them in collective bargaining. Result: only a little more than 2% voted for no union at all; nearly 70% voted for C.I.O...