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...nails in deep mourning, knobby legs without stockings, splayed feet in battered old white moccasins, carried a U.S. flag. Others carried signs bearing anti-convoy sentiments; excerpts from Presidential speeches promising no foreign wars. A big Negro, third in line, better dressed than anybody else, carried a sign "Jim Crow is NOT Democracy." He liked to lecture. "This here's no democracy," he would say pontifically, "when a fellow like me, just because he's black, can't get a job in the factories getting rich off of defense contracts." Behind the pickets the White House grounds...
Last week C.I.O. had something to crow about. After a four-and-a-half-year campaign, every major auto manufacturer was now ClOrganized. In a National Labor Relations Board election at the Lincoln and River Rouge plants, some 80,000 Ford workers were given the chance to decide whether they wanted C.I.O. or A.F. of L. to represent them in collective bargaining. Result: only a little more than 2% voted for no union at all; nearly 70% voted for C.I.O...
This is far better than the airlines dared hope in mid-February when 73-year-old War Secretary Stimson was lobbying for a total ban on new commercial planes. But airline operators did not crow about their victory, did not even announce they had received new planes. Reason: their national defense status...
Harvard's House crow season comes to a close this afternoon when five House first crews and an undetermined number of seconds race over the Henley course in the Basin. The eights of Eliot, long noted as the bulwark of House rowing, are favored to finish first in both events...
Once back in Chicago, however, Congressman Mitchell wheeled around and turned around, jumped Jim Crow with a vengeance. The Illinois Central, the Chicago, Rock Island & Pacific, and the Pullman Co. found themselves on the receiving end of a $50,000 suit. Further, he filed a complaint with ICC. Last week, four years and seven days after his ejection from the Pullman, the complaint was upheld by a unanimous decision of the Supreme Court, which made it plain that the railroads would have to provide equal accommodations for blacks and whites...