Word: crow
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Labor controversies with Ford, U. S. Steel, Bethlehem, Allis-Chalmers, Harvester, and the Pennsylvania mining companies will be taken up by the speakers and discussed on the floor. An open membership meeting to take action on Jim Crow practices in athletics and to make arrangements for the peace demonstrations on April 23 will follow...
Budget cuts, Jim Crow practices, and state committees for investigating education all took a rapping from the National Council for Democracy i Education, whose 400 delegates held stormy session for two days during the vacation in desorted halls of Harvard...
...Negro affairs, engineered the formation of the 99th. Many Negroes applauded his feat, but many squawked. Their complaint: segregation of the 99th. Until Negro cadets went to the same air schools, joined the same squadrons that white fliers did, these fighters for race equality would consider it a Jim Crow Air Corps...
...They became opposing Gubernatorial candidates last fall; McDaniel, backed by unsavory machine politicos, was expected to win handily. He lost by 3,613 votes, and the raging machine contested the election. Inauguration Day (Jan. 13) came & went; still the Democratic machine tools refused to seat Donnell. Democratic Governor Lloyd Crow Stark, furious at his party, stayed on overtime while the case went to the Supreme Court. Citizens everywhere spat disgust at the Democratic legislature; some of it spattered on uncomfortable, friendly Lawrence McDaniel. At an advertising club's satirical dinner (Jan. 31) the chums were asked to pose together...
Since Sgt. Poutre gave Gimpy the job of instructing younger pigeons last fall, he has turned out 150 graduates, trained to fly back to the trailer lofts as straight as a crow. Taken farther and farther away each day from Monmouth, he led them back unerringly to the loft, showed them that a pigeon can fly with a message capsule on leg or back. Last week, on his twisted right leg, three-year-old Gimpy stumped among a new class of 52 youngsters, fixed them with a hard...