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...from them. The son of a poor farmer of mixed blood, he was born in 1901, while his country was still under U.S. occupation, at the eastern sugar town of Banes. Quitting Banes' Quaker School at twelve, he worked as a tailor's apprentice, bartender, barber, banana picker, cane cutter and railroad hand. At 20 he joined the Army. To other soldiers, he was virtually a literary type: there was always a book or magazine under the pillow of his bunk. When he got the chance, he studied shorthand and became a sergeant-stenographer, handling secret papers, working...
...papers. He has even threatened one of them with shutting off its sources of state government information. Last week the hard-digging Tribune (TIME, Jan. 8, 1951) uncovered another scandal right under Warren's nose. Checking on a tip, Reporter Clyde Shaffer found that a Negro orange-picker named David Reese had been sitting in a Hernando County jail for 18 months, even though there were no formal charges against...
...demand as workers in the sugar-beet fields of the West, for, unlike braceros (from Mexico), they are not protected by treaty regulations. Navajos are cheap; they keep their mouths shut and they do as they are told. When the season ended at Burley, Idaho, a Navajo beet picker named Kee Chee dumbly obeyed orders to get his family on a chartered bus for the long ride home to New Mexico-even though it meant taking his sick, seven-month-old daughter out of a hospital at nearby Bear River City, Utah...
...then headed for the office on a bus whose fare was a third higher than it was a month ago. The story was much the same in shops, department stores, haberdasheries and restaurants. The U.S. was reaching through rising prices to buy what it wanted as a berry picker reaches into a nettle patch. "Sure, they're buyin'," said a Boston salesgirl, "but they're lookin' and pawin' and hemmin' and hawin' before they...
...first money brought his winnings to $198,677-an all-time record for a two-year-old colt.* It was the third Futurity win for both Arcaro and Owner Widener, who is president of Belmont Park and chairman of the Jockey Club as well as a good picker of sales yearlings...