Word: crow
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Four Corners. From the actual plaintiffs and defendants he represents, Marshall gets not a cent; the N.A.A.C.P. and its Legal Fund (combined annual budget: $500,000) pay him a flat $12,000 a year to give first-class counsel to Jim Crow's "secondclass citizens." Marshall generally has a running headstart on opposing lawyers in civil rights cases; the law he made yesterday is today's precedent. Four of Marshall's victories have become the constitutional cornerstones of the Negro's new civil rights: Smith v. Allwright, outlawing the Texas "white primary" and opening...
...During 21 years of scrabbling for a living in the rough, picturesque Black Hills of South Dakota, Negro Rancher Roland Kercheval and his wife Beatrice have "never met" Jim Crow. Kercheval, in fact, is considered to be of pioneer stock-his grandmother was General George Custer's cook at Fort Dodge, Kans.; his father came to the Black Hills in the gold rush of '76. His three children have won innumerable ribbons in the Pilger Valley Gophers 4-H club, and the two oldest are noted locally for their musical talent. This year, nevertheless, his wife began urging...
Between these two extremes, best represented in Africa by Prime Minister Nkrumah's self-governing Gold Coast and Prime Minister Malan's Jim Crow South Africa, there is a no man's land of strife, where one day it will be decided whether Empire can change to Commonwealth across the barriers of race...
...will be a team season this year, and Barnaby thinks he has as much potential strength as any other coach. "We don't have any great to crow about, but we may surprise. We could beat any major opponent...
National Distillers has found no revolutionary way of extracting such whiskies as Old Taylor, Old Grand-Dad and Old Crow, or any of the company's 55 other liquor brands, from natural gas. But National's President John Edward Bierwirth does think he has found a way to make National grow faster by expanding outside of the liquor business. In the four years since Bierwirth became president, National has put $82 million into the chemical industry. The Tuscola petrochemical plant, owned jointly with Panhandle Eastern Pipe Line Co., is its biggest chemical investment to date. From natural...