Word: lankford
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Shotguns at 2 a.m. Tipped off that the Veneys were being sheltered by a family named Garrett, the raiders mistakenly crashed into the home of Negro Postal Employee Samuel Lankford. At 2 a.m. Lankford awoke to find four raiders toting shotguns and aiming flashlights in his face. His six children got the same treatment. Schoolteacher Lucinda Wallace was showing slides to a Bible class at home when six armed men burst in, while eight others barred her hysterical mother from the house. When Mrs. Maggie Sheppard, 72, refused to answer the raiders she was arrested, along with her mentally...
After a careful weighing of all criteria, including time and distance traveled, experts on congressional expense accounts somewhat dazedly acclaimed a new record holder: Maryland's Democratic Congress man Richard E. Lankford, 47. On a 38-day junket that carried him from Honolulu to Scotland "to see how our military assistance program ties in with our defense effort," the eleventh-ranking Democratic member of the House Armed Services Committee managed, by his own account, to spend $3,597 on meals, hotels and "miscellaneous." When a reporter incredulously noted that all this averaged out at better than $11 a meal...