Word: greyhounding
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Congress, evidently, has grown used to considering this pathetic beast the lean and speedy little greyhound that was the Marshall Plan. Those Appropriations Committee members who have the hallucination are likely to find the President's brilliant new five-year-old appropriation plan an annoying and unnecessary demand. Before their more sensible colleagues will want to approve of long-range development assistance, they will have to get familiar with a concept decades old in theory: precise and careful economic planning...
...behind the demonstrations at both meetings is James Peck, 45, editor of CORE'S Corelator. Despite his two latest setbacks, Peck believes that attending company meetings produces results, says his pleas helped to cause W. T. Grant to open its lunch counters in Baltimore to Negroes and Greyhound to end segregated bus seating. "I attended Greyhound annual meetings for nine years straight," says Peck. "Finally, we won." Even before the demonstrations last week, both Kress and Woolworth had stopped excluding Negroes from lunch counters in San Antonio, Galveston and Nashville. Kress has desegregated in Austin. Negotiations to desegregate...
...appeals from its Negro population (9%) for lunch-counter equality after several meetings of white and Negro clergymen, businessmen and store managers. Opened to Negroes without incident were lunch counters in seven variety and 23 drugstores. Also, six Negro students from Fisk University were served at Nashville's Greyhound bus terminal restaurant where, only two weeks before, 56 students had been arrested for refusing to leave while police searched for a reported bomb...
...tinder-dry Tennessee, where fortnight ago Chattanooga firemen were forced to turn hoses on several thousand rioting whites and Negroes. Last week the flames leaped to Nashville, as 500 Negroes surged through downtown variety, drug and department stores, left a wake of closed counters and pushed on to the Greyhound and Trailways bus terminals. Sixty-four Negro students were arrested, most of them for refusing to leave the Greyhound lunch counter while police searched for a reported bomb. Charged with violation of the city code, they at first declined to post $50 bonds, said in a statement, "We cannot find...
Roundup. During Christmas week, police and plainclothesmen swarmed into De Walletjes and rounded up a collection of pimps with such names as Fat Rinus, Piglet and Harry the Greyhound, and madams like Mad Margareta, 58, who employs 30 girls in one house bordering a canal and owns five other brothels. "She is the capitalist of the district," said the police. The pimps and madams were accused of accepting hippen money (hip is Dutch slang for whore...