Word: rodes
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...stop. On Jan. 13, they went out on strike, and the coffins began to pile up at Calvary. After burial services, the coffins were laid down in shallow uncovered trenches. Last week when the number of unburied dead topped 1,000, the cardinal called out his seminarians. Tightlipped, he rode his gravediggers through the cemetery's picket line, while a silent union man respectfully touched his hat to his cardinal arch bishop. It was a serious decision that the cardinal had made. Many a Catholic union man was troubled and angry at the sight of the young strikebreakers...
...crowd loved it. Looking very pleased, Mr. Truman got into his limousine and rode back to Blair House...
Minute Man. One night last week, Harry Truman got into his limousine and rode over to the Army & Navy Country Club in Arlington, Va. There some 200 members of the Reserve Officers Association and their wives, gathered for dinner, had reached dessert. Mr. Truman sat down at the head table...
...became known as the "Minister of Surpluses." When war came in 1939, he plumped for South African neutrality, split with Prime Minister Smuts, and two years later disappeared into the political wilderness. Last spring he allied his Afrikaaner Party with the race-conscious Nationalist Party (TIME, June 7) and rode back into power when Smuts went...
...rhythm came at him from every direction. In the daytime, there was jazz in the streets. Band members would pile into advertising wagons (with the trombonist on the tail gate for freedom of reach) and engage in music battles with other bands; the winner was chosen by acclamation and rode off with crowds following. At Negro funerals, the bands played to & from the cemetery-doleful spirituals on the way out, such frenzied affirmations as High Society and Oh, Didn't He Ramble! on the way back...