Word: delanoe
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...Mary. They sang hymns in honor of the man whose body lay in the coffin. He was Juan de la Cruz, 60, who had been among the first to join Cesar Chavez's campaign to organize the farm workers of California. While picketing at a vineyard south of Delano, De la Cruz had been shot down by rifle fire from a passing car. Now, at the grave-site in the small farming town of Arvin, Chavez told the strikers: "He is not dead; what will die are the abuses of the growers...
...Growers understand sales. The memory of the last great boycott is their recurring nightmare. If the grocers find their customers turning away, the Delano and Fresno growers won't be so fast to conspire with the Teamsters when their UFW contracts expire. To be stuck with a worthless crop is a fate even worse then negotiating with a worker-controlled union...
Nineteen forty-two bore more resemblance to a normal year at Harvard than any of the next four. On May 1 of that year, a parody Crimson--which attributed itself to "The Spy Club"--appeared. Its editorial board was composed of Franklin Delano Roosevelt. Elmer Davis, Ruless R. O. Penyons, and Arch Macleish, and their lead editorial, in flawless Crimson style, declared...
...expected to do better at our start, but after 40 strokes went by we had a good lead," Rocky Delano, Kirkland's stroke, said yesterday...
...population was poised by radios each Sunday night to hear the familiar, high-pitched voice announce above the urgent sound of a telegraph key: "Good evening, Mr. and Mrs. North America and all the ships at sea. Let's go to press!" No one, save perhaps President Franklin Delano Roosevelt, an avid listener and confidant, was safe from the Winchell shaft. He railed against "Hitlerooting" U.S. Senators, accused Defense Secretary James Forrestal of plotting a Wall Street dictatorship. Once, when a lengthy study of Winchell in The New Yorker reported that "41.2% of the columnist's items...