Word: tilled
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...that I can comment about that in the abstract. I think the Supreme Court's decision speaks for itself, and I believe that the law should be supported by all of the citizens of the country." When a reporter sought to ask him about the case of Emmett Till, the Negro boy who was murdered in Mississippi, Stevenson interrupted the question to continue an explanation of his attitude on taxes ("While I might be against a tax reduction, which would mean revenue reduction, I might be in favor of tax adjustment"). After Stevenson had finished the tax statement, Chicago...
...Greenwood, Miss., a 20-man grand jury last week declined to indict Roy Bryant and John W. Milam for the admitted kidnaping of Emmett Till, 14, of Chicago, before he was killed. Bryant and Milam were set free; their bail bonds, $10,000 each, were returned, despite the fact that both men, while denying that they had killed young Till, admitted to police that they had taken him from his uncle's home. On behalf of the Mississippians who regretted the grand jury's failure to indict, the Jackson State Times concluded: "The case . . . wound...
...week's end Illinois' Governor William G. Stratton asked U.S. Attorney General Herbert Brownell to investigate the disappearance of Emmett Till. Said Stratton: "It now appears that those responsible for this tragic crime are not being brought to justice ... I feel it is my duty to respectfully request the U.S. Government ... to investigate the violation of rights of this Illinois citizen in another state...
...worth only one-third that amount," Murchison amended his original estimate of his personal wealth. He was really worth, he guessed, "about $30 million." Added Murchison: "I consider money to be the same as manure. If you pick it up and put it out in the fields and till it, you get good returns . . ." Cracked Referee Fitzsimmons, dryly: "$20 million is a lot of fertilizer...
...Funny, my eye," roared the host. "Wait till you see what he says about you girls. He makes you all sound like a bunch of overcompensating sexpots...