Word: crow
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...East last month to take a scholarship at New York's Sarah Lawrence College, Florence Iva Begay, a Navaho girl, had gotten the Jim Crow treatment in a bus near Amarillo, Tex. Shocked and scared, she went back to the reservation (TIME, Oct. 11). Last week, as she was playing the piano for a service in a little Protestant church in Flagstaff, Ariz., an invitation arrived. How would she like to fly to the big Tri-State Fair at Amarillo, with all expenses paid? Amarillo wanted to "open its collective arms and heart" to Florence, so that she would...
...great day for Inventor Harry Ferguson. Less than 15 months after Henry Ford II had stopped producing Ferguson tractors, Irish-born Harry Ferguson stepped into his first tractor to drive it out of his new Detroit plant. He had something to crow about...
...local citizen's committees. His campaign will emphasize restored price control, long-range housing and slum clearance programs and repeal of the Taft-Hartley and Selective Service Acts. He has declared himself in favor of a roll-back of price levels, a dollar-an-hour minimum wage, anti-Jim Crow legislation, and a U. N.-without-political-strings...
...their dirty work." But "the workers and farmers and independent businessmen of the South are turning from the false leadership of those who have been styled 'Southern liberals'-they are turning from those who have preached the tolerance of intolerance, tolerance of segregation, tolerance of murderous Jim Crow. They are learning that such men are only slightly to the left of Hitler and Rankin...
...Carter, of the Greenville Delta Democrat-Times, was brought into the act by the Providence Journal. It had carried the Sprigle series (along with 13 other Northern papers), and felt that its readers had a right to hear from the defense. Carter wrote a six-part series called "Jim Crow's Other Side," which was offered last week to papers which syndicated Sprigle...