Word: luthers
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Montgomery, where famed Negro Minister Martin Luther King Jr. (TIME, Feb. 18, 1957) had announced that Negroes would soon present the board of education with a school integration plan, the city commission 1) accused "certain Negroes" of "attempting to disturb the operation of the public schools," 2) pledged "full assistance" to the board of education in resisting school integration, and 3) called for a grand jury investigation of King's integration movement...
...overlook the Rev. Martin Luther King of Montgomery, Ala. Think about...
Engineer John Luther ("Casey") Jones highballed the Illinois Central's Cannonball No. 1 out of Memphis an hour and 35 minutes late. His throttle hand urged the Cannonball south along Mississippi's Big Black River at 75 m.p.h. while Casey exulted in its power. "Sim," he shouted to his fireman, "the old lady's got her high-heeled slippers on tonight." Minutes later he saw the freight cars parked on the track ahead. "Jump, Sim," cried Casey, "and save yourself." Fireman Simeon Webb jumped and lived. But Casey Jones, on the night of April 30, 1900, roared...
Died. Janie Brady Jones, 92, widow of John Luther ("Casey'') Jones, railroad engineer made immortal by a folk song; following a stroke; in Jackson, Tenn. (see NATIONAL AFFAIRS...
Business in Politics. Ex-Businessman Luther Hodges is a businessman's Governor who likes to say: "I'm one of the few Governors who didn't have any training in politics-except for my general understanding of public relations...