Word: crowing
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Also on the agenda is a discussion of resolutions in support of the Crow Bill, which would ban the dissemination of discriminatory propaganda through the mails, and the Buckley Bill, which would deny G.I. benefits to Communists and Communist sympathizers...
...waiting on tables, scaling fish at summer resorts, and sweeping out the local Y.M.C.A. Most of his time in the U.S., as Mbonu tells it, was spent as a sort of black Cinderella in a white man's coach. He often had to play hide-&-seek with Jim Crow, yet he went home feeling pretty optimistic about the U.S. race problem. His conclusion: "Against the declining forces of reaction and hate are overwhelming forces of progress and kindness...
...Throw Them Out." With such a ready-made situation, Local 713's membership snowballed. Army officials, alarmed by U.P.W.A.'s growth and embarrassed by the old Jim Crow system, were ready to meet the union's demands, at least half way. By last week the union claimed these gains: 1) removal of the hateful gold and silver signs in public places; 2) an order admitting Panamanians to equal terms in civil service exams; 3) hourly wage hikes of 2? to 6?; 4) a 40-hour week; 5) improved vacation privileges; 6) more overtime...
...chauffeur-bodyguards brings one of his Buicks around to the door for the 29-mile drive into town (via an arterial gallingly named Roosevelt Road). After one recent commuting trip on which he noted that the crows seemed to be getting out of hand, he was moved to take over the Tribune farm column for a short essay on weapons: "The firearms manufacturers," he wrote, "have been dead from the neck up for about 40 years. . . . The crow easily gets away from anything the old-fashioned shotgun can throw at him. There is needed a crow gun to decimate this...
...Crow district court last week Texas officials made a show of claiming that they had provided "equal facilities" for Negroes by setting up a "law school" (with a charter but no students) in an Austin basement. But the state concentrated on defending segregation as such. Texas Dean B.F. Pittenger argued: "The attitude of Texans being what it is, the effect of abandoning segregation . . . would set back public education in Texas." Rather than let children mingle with Negroes, he said, white parents would send them to private schools...