Word: grenada
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...When Grenada's powerful Mental and Manual Workers' Union called an all-island strike last week to protest against anti-strike measures before the island legislature, island authorities frantically wirelessed for help. H.M.S. Devonshire, light cruiser on a training cruise in nearby waters, landed Royal Marines. As angry plantation workers rioted and fired buildings the marines set to work to get the situation in hand...
...Central helped both to change national habits and create folklore. It was one of the first to sponsor excursion tours to the South via its "True Winter Route"*. And the folk hero of all U.S. railroading rose from the wreck near Grenada, Miss. in 1900, where Illinois Central Engineer John Luther ("Casey") Jones died with one hand on the brake, the other on the throttle...
...Grenada County Weekly Grenada, Miss...
...bolder Jim Crow signs. There was no pause in the steady run of "incidents" between white civilians and Negro soldiers at the state's 36 military establishments. Politicians, bitter at the New Deal for "pampering" the colored folks, went right on orating in favor of white supremacy. The Grenada County Weekly editorialized: "The good darkies of the South should remember that, at the best, Eleanor [Roosevelt] will be boss of the U.S. a limited time, while the good white people of the South will be here forever...
...York-Cosmopolitan cricket has something of the quietly gala atmosphere of matches at Lord's in London. The teams (bearing such names as Grenada, Windsor, Trinidad) disport their flannels, blazers and visored beanies against a background of picture hats and parasols. The crowd's applause almost never rises above a musical murmur. Between innings, there is a tea interval...