Word: roome
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...back room of Buffalo's Memorial Auditorium, Averell Harriman dabbed at damp eyes as the roll was called. Result: Hogan 773, Murray 304, Finletter...
...full employment lasted, there was no serious trouble. Some whites looked askance at the 130,000 West Indian Negroes who have poured into London and the industrial Midlands since the war, and complained of their un-English habits of nursing babies in public, living six and eight to a room, dancing and singing in the streets. But the Negroes, mostly Jamaicans, readily found jobs as laborers, furnacemen in foundries, dishwashers, transport workers-all the jobs that, as a Ministry of Labor official explained, "our people find too hot and dusty." A few of the newcomers did well enough...
What discrimination there was seemed mainly social. Rooming houses openly proclaimed "No colored." Hotels were "full" to Negro applicants. Restaurants often refused to serve them, some pubs segregated Negroes in one room, whites in another. Dance halls all over the Midlands would quietly bar any Negro who did not bring his own partner. Said a ballroom manager: "We're not against them, we just don't want any trouble...
...fancy prizes that looked so fine before the camera have too often grown tarnished between victory and delivery; e.g., the all-expenses-paid vacation in Europe provided no hotel room, only a flight to Paris and home the next day. There was evidence that contestants on certain shows had signed away their prizes before going on, undertaking to accept their TV winnings for far less cash than their real value. The best defense that network officials and their spring-legged pressagents could make in private was that the quiz shows were not really crooked but only hippodromed, like a wrestling...
...Rhoda $2,000 a month alimony, the custody of their six-year-old daughter, a $53,000 insurance policy on her ex-husband's life and the house in Van Nuys. In court she testified that Ernie used to fly into rages, tossed furniture, locked himself in his room for 24 hours. Later she added to reporters: "He did not change much after he made Marty. Just a little more self-confident, maybe. The consensus is that the individual has gone...