Word: emmett
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Clyde E. Weed, 65, was elected president of Anaconda Co., succeeding Robert Emmett Dwyer, 70, who is retiring after 53 years with the company. Weed, the company's mining boss since 1938, will be the first engineer in 41 years to head Anaconda, the world's biggest copper mining concern and No. 1 U.S. manganese producer. A graduate of the Michigan State College of Mining and Technology, Weed started at the bottom of a mine as a pick-and-shovel hand in 1911, later managed copper properties throughout Michigan, Arizona and Mexico. In 1935 he was named president...
...Manhattan, with Ringling Bros, circus going on without him just across the street, famed Clown Emmett Kelly, 57, involuntarily played hooky, spent his time entertaining only one kiddy, his own Stasia, a nve-month-old big-top tot. It was the first opening Kelly had missed in his 14 years with the circus. Reason: the American Guild of Variety Artists, wrangling with Ringling Bros, over a welfare fund for circus performers, ordered Guildman Kelly to stay away...
Friendly Hedge. Also swinging through California, Campaigner Estes Kefauver faced the same kind of questions and left behind an entirely different impression. Calling the Emmett Till case in Mississippi "a horrible murder," he said he favored a federal anti-mob statute. In a friendly but carefully hedged statement he indicated that he would support Powell's proposal if it became necessary, and if it could be worded to protect the purposes of the school-aid bill. If elected President, he said, he would 1) appoint a commission of white and Negro educational leaders in the South to confer...
...nomination is the late Emmett Till. I believe that his death and the subsequent acquittal of Bryant and Milam have awakened the U.S. to the true meaning of Mississippi fascism with its warped sense of justice...
...fundamental reason for such a thing as the Emmett Till episode ... rests upon the archaic ideology of the southern people as a majority. I interpret ideology here in the Webster sense as the "aggregate of ideas, beliefs, doctrines of a large group of persons". This ideology has lead the Southerners to spew forth such statements as the following: "If Roy and J. W. (referring to Roy Bryant and J. W. Milam, the defendants in the Till case) are convicted of murder...where under the shining sun is the land of the free and the home of the brave?" Or more...