Word: foremans
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...that he can actually make it the hard way. The boy works like a demon, impresses his boss. Then, fired for a theft he did not commit, he bitterly resolves on revenge. While trying to blow the boss's safe, he is surprised by a foreman, who attacks him with a crowbar. The boy panics, shoots his assailant dead, runs wildly through the streets till he is cornered in an empty house...
...built and athletic, he was a crack miler at Sumner High School, went on to break records at Southern Illinois University. He showed skill as a comic in Army talent contests in the mid '50s, and when he worked as a clerk in the Chicago post office, the foreman told him that if he did not stop cracking jokes about the mail service, he would be sacked. The jokes continued. Gregory was fired, and began work for $10 a night in the Club Esquire, a Negro club on Chicago's South Side...
Some construction workers were engaged one day in repairing a road near New College, when along came several 'raggers' who asked for the foreman. They warned him that a group of undergraduates had dressed up as policemen and would arrive rather than by what they do--achieve-shortly to make him stop work on that section of road. Thereupon, the jokesters took off to the nearest police station where they informed the constabulary that some irresponsible undergraduates, masquerading as workmen, were tearing the road to pieces. The conspirators then hid. It didn't take long for both sides to discover...
...Lloyd A. Foreman of New Orleans. The courage and dignity displayed by him during the recent school integration fight [in New Orleans] should be an example to all of those who believe that this is the land of the free and the home of the brave...
...Going to Help." Against the mob's passion, the Foreman and Gabrielle families wavered. The Foremans. harassed by obscene telephone calls, moved to the home of friends. Lloyd Foreman hesitated about bringing his little girl to school again. "Frankly," he said, "at this point, I don't know what they might try." Jim Gabrielle's boss told him-mistakenly-that his daughter had been shot. Daisey Gabrielle, ostracized by her neighbors, stood fast. "Neighbors change," she said. "Principles...