Word: store
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Never a Spectator." From his earliest memory Martin King has had a strong aversion to violence in all its forms. The school bully walloped him; Martin did not fight back. His younger brother flailed away at him; Martin stood and took it. A white woman in a store slapped him, crying, "You're the nigger who stepped on my foot." Martin said nothing. Cowardice? If so, it would come as a surprise to Montgomery, where Martin Luther King has unflinchingly faced the possibility of violent death for months...
...prescription: short, below-the-knee leg braces attached to special, high-top shoes to be worn in daytime, longer braces (up to the thigh) to be worn at night. The Army hospital prosthesis department rushed to make two pairs of each type of brace. At a downtown Washington shoe store, doctors supervised the fitting of four pairs of special shoes (children's size 9E), expected to last the growing boy four months. Four more pairs, size 9½, were supplied for the next four months. As the boy's feet grow, Saud's palace physician can order...
...comers (among the early beneficiaries of his press-agentry: Trigger-happy Cuban Dictator Gerardo Machado, Nazi Germany's Tourist Information Office, President Roosevelt's Birthday Balls for infantile paralysis), in 1946 was fined $5,000 in a federal court for conspiring with the A. & P. chain-store firm to violate the Sherman Anti-Trust Act (he set up dummy trade and citizens' groups, helped keep in committee a New York State tax bill that would have cost A. & P. $2,000,000 a year). A Byoir maxim: "If the truth doesn't sound believable...
Harold D. Hodgkinson, managing director of Filene's Department Store, will give the first Tobe Lecture on retail distribution this afternoon at 3:40 p.m. in Baker 101. The lectures will be published in a text for use at business schools and colleges...
...necessarily obscure, the current fact seems to be not only that Nixon is foremost among Republican presidential aspirants but that he is unlikely to make the errors which would displace him from that position." Five days after the inauguration, Dick Nixon announced that the future held something else in store for him: a new home. He had signed a contract to buy (for $75,000 on a property appraised at $67,500) the 21-room (six bedrooms), old stone house owned by the late Homer Cummings, onetime (1933-39) Democratic Attorney General. The approximate moving date to fashionable Wesley Heights...