Word: downs
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Then Hugo Sims cocked a campaigner's ear for his own education. Stout, grey Mayor Angelo Stoudermire, a clerk in Rickenbacker's store, talked about what Sims already knew-how the failure of the local cotton crop had hit hard. "When the small farmers get hit," said Angelo...
Dr. Wirt A. Warren, a mild-mannered physician with a good practice in Wichita, Kans., sat down and wrote a letter to the Department of Justice in Washington. "This will inform you," he wrote, "that I am not obeying and do not intend to obey . . . that portion of the [Selective...
Last week the three judges of the U.S. tenth circuit court of appeals at Omaha unanimously turned down Dr. Warren's appeal, ruled that if the U.S. Congress has the power to raise armies-which it does-it also has "power to say who shall serve in them and...
Davis and friends piled into a car and rolled north on Lenox Avenue to address another gathering. An aroused, noisy crowd, some carrying torches, formed behind two blaring sound trucks and marched along Lenox after them. Ten policemen, who had let the parade form, got to worrying about possible trouble...
A little later, and several blocks to the north, Ben Davis beamed down on another cheering crowd from the balcony of Harlem's Theresa Hotel, with Paul Robeson at his side. Both looked mighty pleased with the way things were going.