Word: et
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...court conviction is being appealed), to breathe racial fire into the quiet town. The vast majority of Clintonians remained willing to obey the law. But some followed Kasper, set themselves up as an obscene, stone-throwing vigilante group, drove the Negro children from Clinton high school (TIME, Sept. 10 et...
...money in his family to pay for long years of medical education, so after brooding for a while over his lost dreams. Guy. at the age of 29, turned to the priesthood. As the abbé of the little village of Uruffe in the Department of Meurthe-et-Moselle, he became a dynamo of public service, always busily organizing youth groups, a theatrical society, football team and other worthwhile projects. On Sundays, his sermons crackled with reproof of parishioners less disposed to such constant activity, but even the reproved agreed that handsome, young Abbé Desnoyers was a godsend...
...intricate tax case dates back to 1942, when Eaton set out to finance a new iron mine under Steep Rock Lake in western Ontario (TIME, Nov. 16, 1942. et seq.). Eaton raised $2,250,000 from U.S. investors, got the RFC to lend Steep Rock another $5,000,000, and got agreements from the Canadian and Ontario governments that would exempt Steep Rock from paying taxes until iron was produced...
Russ Jones has been on hot spots before. He was in Prague when A.P. Correspondent William Oatis was jailed on a phony charge of spying (TIME, July 16, 1951 et seq.). After ignoring repeated warnings from the State Department that it would only be a matter of time before he was arrested, Jones was finally inveigled to Frankfurt by the U.P. for a "conference," was not permitted to go back. Said a U.P. colleague: "He's just a guy who likes to stay where things are happening...
During the tragic Autherine Lucy affair (TIME, Feb. 13 et seq.) Carmichael was caught between those who thought he should have taken a bolder stand for principle and those who blamed him for allowing a Negro to get into the university in the first place. He began to receive anonymous phone calls accusing him of being a "nigger lover." Gradually, his trustees began to turn against him, and the strain became too much...