Word: townes
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Club scholarships, and many of the National Scholarships stipulate that the holder must be a resident of a given area. Sometimes this area is a region as inclusive as the South, often a certain state or country, but sometimes the area is narrowed down to include only a certain town or "the region within 20 miles of the State House...
...still calling for more. Some papers, e.g., the St. Louis Post-Dispatch, were planning to run one of the new columns in a top spot on Page One. Said Executive Editor Basil L. ("Stuffy") Walters of the Chicago Daily News last week: "People would have laughed you out of town if you had run that kind of stuff...
...barrel well, their second in two months. Hope and Crosby and their two Texas partners promptly began drilling two more. Near by, Don Ameche, who had leased 21,600 acres with three Chicago partners, had put up $200,000 to sink a wildcat. Just east of the small town of Rotan, Tex., where he had leased 1,500 acres, Randolph Scott and his partner found oil sands at 5,700 ft., hoped to be producing "within three weeks...
...story is told with considerable honesty and understated force. It will therefore doubtless irritate both professional Southerners and professional champions of racial equality. Back to her native South goes a white-skinned Negro girl (Jeanne Grain), who has "passed" in the North while studying nursing. In her home town, she is first terrified, then furious, at the treatment she gets as a Negro. It is not long until she comes close to being robbed by a fellow Negro, and raped by white men. Torn between running back North to her white doctor fiance (William Lundigan) and devoting her life...
Sanctuary. In Rock Island, Ill., Martin Kohn was caught drunk riding on the town water wagon...