Word: makeshiftness
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...conduct of Negro Judge George Crockett, 59, of the city's Recorder's Court. Wakened at 5 a.m. by the news of the mass arrests, Crockett hustled to police headquarters while the prisoners were still being processed. He moved into a small unused office, set up a makeshift courtroom, began reviewing each case. He ordered that 16 of the prisoners be let out on $100 bail and 22 be held, before Wayne County Prosecutor William Cahalan arrived to protest the releases. Cahalan insisted that police needed more time to run the paraffin tests that could determine whether...
Some of the University officers normally stationed in University Hall have set up makeshift headquarters in other buildings. Several deans worked out of Pusey's house, and the Harvard New Office sent out news releases from an office in Holyoke Center...
...would, of course, be glib and ridiculously optimistic to say that all of S.F. State's problems have vanished. The truce ignored many basic tensions and devised makeshift solutions for others. Hayakawa still has to decide whether the strike leaders "deserve" amnesty. And the leaders themselves say that the administration has violated agreements before. The Black Students Union still demands that S.F. State rehire Nathan Hare and George Murray--the two Black Panthers whose firings triggered the strike last fall--while Hayakawa still refuses to bring them back...
...trustees to approve its purchase. He liked to boast that he once snapped up 33 pictures at the Wildenstein Gallery before lunch, then talked the Brazilian government into giving him a $3,000,000 loan to finance his purchases. As the "museum" grew, it was moved from one makeshift quarters to another. In recent years, it has been housed in Chateaubriand's office building in downtown Sāo Paulo. But the city fathers were finally stirred into action, put up the millions to build the collection a home of its own. Its official opening on March 12 will...
Even though a court order temporarily restrained the city from collecting the levy, the nation's oldest exchange (founded in 1790) started trading in makeshift leased quarters in the affluent Main Line town of Bala-Cynwyd, a 25-minute auto ride from the city center. Lacking the traditional opening bell, George Snyder, an exchange governor, intoned a resounding "bong." Then 25 trading specialists sat around a composition-board table laid over trestles to buy and sell shares. Despite a shortage of telephones and stock tickers, which forced them to run the tapes down the length of the table...