Word: grayness
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Last Sunday our fleet made 30 trips, with a total of 150 passengers," he said. "When I am offered money, I suggest that they put the amount of the fare into the church collection box." Gray pooh-poohs the financial sacrifice on his part. "In the early morning, business is bad," he explains. "I just wanted to thank the Lord for my good fortune...
Three years ago Charles J. Gray was out of a job and nearly broke when he began to drive a taxi in a suburb of Flint, Mich. For a while he had some rough going, but now he owns the North End Cab Co., with six taxis and an office. A few weeks ago 46-year-old Cabman Gray decided it was time to do something he had been thinking about for a long time. He called up the six churches in his area (five Protestant and one Roman Catholic) and told them he would give free cab rides...
...Gray has insisted on widening discussion beyond his own views. Once a headline in one of the Gray papers called cigarettes "coffin tacks." That angered Publisher Gray's Uncle James, who is chairman of the board of R. J. Reynolds Tobacco Co. (Camels) and second largest stockholder in the newspapers. Uncle James demanded that the managing editor be fired, but Publisher Gray refused. Last month, in a bitter dispute between a doctor and nurses at the county hospital, the county commissioners-led by a director of the Gray newspapers-sided with the doctor; the editors, again with Gray...
Convictions. This summer, for 2½ months, Publisher Gray and Editor Martin fought out the battle of the bottle on the Journal editorial page, though in the news columns, both newspapers played up stories favoring repeal. The mayor backed Gray; the churches lined up behind Martin...
...reasons of conscience, principle and conviction, I have been unable to follow the policy of the [owners]. I am sure [they] acted also for the same reasons." In record numbers, the voters of Forsyth County registered their choice: For Editor Martin and prohibition: 15,734; for Publisher Gray and repeal...