Word: crow
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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This is far better than the airlines dared hope in mid-February when 73-year-old War Secretary Stimson was lobbying for a total ban on new commercial planes. But airline operators did not crow about their victory, did not even announce they had received new planes. Reason: their national defense status...
Harvard's House crow season comes to a close this afternoon when five House first crews and an undetermined number of seconds race over the Henley course in the Basin. The eights of Eliot, long noted as the bulwark of House rowing, are favored to finish first in both events...
...name "Jim Crow," meaning anything Negroid, was spawned by that awkwardly worded but catchy little song hit a hundred-odd years ago; today he stands for the segregation of white and colored races. To the Southern Negro, Jim Crow has meant, among other things, outmoded railway coaches, the rear rows of seats on trolleys and busses...
...separate and sufficient accommodations" for both races. But when his Pullman reservation was refused at the Arkansas line, Arthur Mitchell swallowed his temper, declined a proffered rebate, obeyed the conductor's order to continue his journey in what he described as the "filthy and foul-smelling" Jim Crow coach up ahead...
Once back in Chicago, however, Congressman Mitchell wheeled around and turned around, jumped Jim Crow with a vengeance. The Illinois Central, the Chicago, Rock Island & Pacific, and the Pullman Co. found themselves on the receiving end of a $50,000 suit. Further, he filed a complaint with ICC. Last week, four years and seven days after his ejection from the Pullman, the complaint was upheld by a unanimous decision of the Supreme Court, which made it plain that the railroads would have to provide equal accommodations for blacks and whites...