Word: garfields
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1960-1969
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
First Voice. In the meantime, strange things had been happening in Salisbury. Into office as territorial Prime Minister of Southern Rhodesia came Reginald Stephen Garfield Todd, a strapping, handsome ex-missionary. To the shock of his own United Party, he began to speak softly to the Africans. He managed to ram through a bill giving Southern Rhodesian blacks their first tiny voice in the territory's government-a separate ballot under which they could elect five of the 35 members of parliament. It was not much, but to the settlers it seemed a step toward their worst fear: that...
...Davis listened only to Davis, joined forces with his father and "Uncle" to form the Will Mastin Trio, soon had his audiences pounding the tables and begging for more as he imitated Sir Laurence Olivier, tough-talked his way through impersonations of Edward G. Robinson, Humphrey Bogart and John Garfield...
...vote. He would even sign a treaty guaranteeing the sanctity of the present constitution that in theory will give Africans control of the government-if they wait 100 years or so. As if to show where its heart lay, his regime last week arrested former Prime Minister R. S. Garfield Todd, a onetime Anglican missionary and one of the blacks' stoutest defenders, and without either charge or trial, ordered him confined to his ranch, 250 miles from Salisbury, for a year...
...Chicago the poor are the winos of skid row, the aged pensioners and beatniks of West Madison Street and the hillbillies of the "uptown area," a middle-class neighborhood only a decade ago. Virtually every city has its Negro slums: Detroit's Brewster, Chicago's West Garfield Park, Las Vegas' West Side and Los Angeles' now notorious Watts. The rural poor cluster in the picturesque Appalachians and the Ozarks, on the Louisiana-Texas coastal plain, in the southern Piedmont and the Upper Great Lakes areas where the land is as beaten as the people...
...rounds of ammunition. Like bubbles in hot asphalt, violence popped up elsewhere across the land. The next serious outburst erupted in Chicago. It, too, started with an incident that might have passed unnoticed in a less volatile time. Answering what turned out to be a false alarm in Garfield Park, a Negro neighborhood about five miles west of the Loop, a speeding hook-and-ladder truck knocked down a sign pole, killing Dessie Mae Williams, 23, a Negro. It was a bad setting for such an accident. Only a month earlier, a militant civil rights group called...