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...delivery truck pulled up to the White House, and Driver William Shaw got out with the ten free daily copies of the New York Herald Tribune that are allotted to the White House tenant. But before Shaw had a chance to drive off, a White House messenger appeared, ripped the wrapper off the bundle and tossed all ten Tribs back into the truck. "What'll I do with them?" asked Shaw. "I don't care what you do with them," said the White House man coldly, "but I don't want them around here...
...successful bets taken on white opinion--a winning bet, to be sure, but the movement depended on how whites would react. And the Negroes participating in the sit-ins were a narrow group of students and middle class Negroes. Martin Luther King has complained that Negro lower classes--especially tenant farmers and sharecroppers--are apathetic about civil rights and likely to remain so. They are hungry and in need, and getting them out of the South is a service to them. Few of them want to suffer in the name of a cause, and only a heartless ideologue would...
...years, droves of peasants have fled from the dry hinterland to the region's fertile seacoast. But no bounty is to be found there either. A few feudal landlords own virtually all the land, and the best the peasant can expect is a life as a sharecropper or tenant farmer. As a sharecropper, he gives the landlord one-third to one-half of everything he grows, usually must sell his share to his patrāo for 30% to 50% below market price. At the plantation store where he buys supplies, interest on credit runs 20%. A tenant farmer...
...medical fund to be administered by Blue Cross of Southern California. The medical fund will support ten resident doctors including a psychiatrist, 26 registered nurses on call round the clock, a free dispensary, a laboratory and X-ray room and 24-hour ambulance service. It will also pay tenant claims for outside medical services, except hospitalization...
...referred to one Venezuelan patron who recognized the need for land reform while studying in the U.S., and divided his estate of 20,000 square miles among the tenant farmers. Resulting economic progress has been striking, said Norton...