Word: sackings
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...rural Johnson County's Democratic primary, and 400 Negroes had registered to vote. Two hundred and forty-nine men & women climbed solemnly out of the cars, holding black oilcloth bags. Heads down* to evade the gaze of curious bystanders, they took out the white sheets and sugar-sack masks of the Ku Klux Klan and hurriedly pulled them on. Then, in slow single file, they marched to the paved square before the town's dilapidated courthouse, where a crowd of 700 waited to applaud...
Because it is hard to shout intelligibly through a sugar sack, Green wore no mask. Spectacles glinting, mustache working, he began a tirade against President Harry Truman and his espousal of civil-rights legislation...
...barrel room at a 5-shilling cut in wages, but he was far from happy. "Redmund smokes a pipe," he grumbled. "I don't like it, but I ain't saying anything." A reporter from the Daily Herald printed the remark and Alf got the sack...
...other men who want to live in the College will be accommodated in the dormitories, said Dean Watson. Of the 5400 enrolled in the College, 4168 will sack down in College buildings. The remainder, married or single, prefer to live at home, be explained...
...charge of the CRIMSON until February 1, 1949 will be a board headed by Selig S. Harrison '48, President. Other executives include William S. Fairfield '50, Managing Editor: Paul Sack '48, Business Manager; Joel Raphaelson '49, Editorial Chairman; George G. Daniels '48, Executive Editor; Burton S. Glinn '46, Photographic Chairman; Thomas C. Simons '50, Advertising Manager. Positions on the board are: S. William Green '50, News Editor; Robert Carswell '49, Sports Editor; Stephen N. Cady '48, Associate Sports Editor; David G. Braston '46, Staff Artist; Gilbert H. Boas '49, Circulation Manager; David E. Lilienthal Jr. '49 Librarian; Charles W. Bailey...