Word: crowing
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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MASTER KUNG - Carl Crow - Harper...
...plan of union contemplated a new body (The Methodist Church) composed of five regional Methodist conferences, and a sixth conference embracing 360,000 Negro Methodists regardless of geography. If this smelled of Jim Crow to some Northern liberals, it smelled of too much brotherly love to some Southern diehards. Led by Virginia's Bishop Collins Denny (retired), these antiunionists pounded the racial angle for all it was worth. Stumping the South, 84-year-old Bishop Denny cried: "What are you going to do if eight or ten Negroes come and say, 'Here are our certificates, and we want...
...Harry Truman for the Senate, was appointed U. S. Attorney for the western district of Missouri with Senator Clark's help and began the campaign to clean up the city's voting which culminated in the celebrated indictment of 199 Pendergast heelers for fraud. Then Governor Lloyd Crow Stark, a prosperous nurseryman elected with Pendergast support, unexpectedly rebelled by appointing a new election board of whose four members, Tom Pendergast howled, only one was a "real Democrat." This year, when President Roosevelt reappointed District Attorney Milligan over Harry Truman's lone Senate dissent, many a Missourian concluded...
...might be a more stub born obstacle to Democrats Clark and Roosevelt than optimists might think. Having invited reporters into his office for one of his rare interviews, the old boss announced that he was going on the warpath and that his first victim would be faithless Lloyd Crow Stark, should he be a candidate for re-election...
...introduced the measure fortnight ago. His was the only super-highway scheme reduced to map form (see map) and consequently the one on which argument focused last week. It calls for payment of $8,000,000,000 from the U. S. Treasury to build $500,000-a-mile, crow-flight highways which would antiquate for express travel most existing routes. Representative Snyder's scheme would put approximately 1,600,000 men directly to work, says he, and would be a great aid to national defense. (His six North-South arteries stop significantly short of the Canadian border...