Word: rodes
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...party rode uptown in Mr. Cohn's car, and Mr. Cohn continued his statement. Twice during the ride uptown and as Mr. Adams was getting out of the car, Senator McCarthy asked Mr. Adams to ask Secretary Stevens if the Secretary could find a way to assign Private Schine to New York...
...Pentagon files tell of Southern restaurants being opened to Negro soldiers in uniform, and of white Southern families inviting Negro servicemen home to dinner or for a weekend. A significant then-ν.-now example of the social change: on Aug. 13, 1906, Negro soldiers of the 25th Infantry Regiment rode into Brownsville, Texas, a hotbed of racial disorder, shooting into homes where people lay sleeping, killing a bartender, wounding a policeman. Brownsville did not forget quickly-but last year the First Presbyterian Church of Brownsville invited Negroes from a nearby air base to attend any or all of its services...
...wrote in his diary: "I rode with Lieut. Colonel Eisenhower 50 minutes this morning while he flew a Stearman PT. His flying was fairly good, but not as smooth as it could be." May 15, 1937: "Lieut. Colonel Eisenhower was out and flew for 15 minutes, making three good landings." May 19: "I flew with Lieut. Colonel Eisenhower for 20 minutes and then let him solo. This is the first solo flight he ever made, and he was very happy." During the war, in North Africa and Europe, General Eisenhower occasionally flew a small liaison plane...
...crippled woman got the ride she wanted on a ski lift, and rode down on a rescue toboggan for a dividend thrill...
Alderman issued orders, screened Knight's phone calls, rode around in a state car. While Knight was out of town, Alderman fired a $10,000-a-year state employee. Another time, Knight had to tell Mrs. Alderman to "go home and tend to her business" when she informed the governor's receptionist of impending dismissal. Again without Knight's knowledge, Alderman got his own 25-year-old son put on the state payroll at $505 a month as assistant to the director of professional and vocational standards, a job for which the young man had no experience...