Word: township
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...outgrown a two-bedroom cottage in a predominantly Negro community a mile away. But his coming to Levittown flowered fears, jeers and widespread rumors that he was the spearhead of a Negro invasion. For days surly crowds grumbled outside his house, finally threw stones through its picture window. Bristol Township police were reinforced by tough state troopers at the direction of Pennsylvania's Democratic Governor George M. Leader ("I am ashamed," said Leader, "that this occurred in Pennsylvania...
Last week Bristol Township cops cracked down on the Dogwood Hollow Social Club. Houseowner William A. Hughes, who lives about 1½ miles away, was summoned before a justice of the peace, ordered to bounce the new occupants and their noise or be fined for a zoning violation. Hughes complied; the members finished their coffee, turned off their phonograph and disappeared. At week's end Householder Myers waited uneasily to see in what guise they would next turn up. Said he: "I want to be the same as any other American; I want to be treated like anyone else...
Early Life: Born in Normanby Township, Ont., Sept. 18. 1895. His father (a schoolteacher, later a farmer and civil servant) and mother were third-generation Canadians. When he was eight, the family moved to wheat-growing, western Saskatchewan, where John Diefenbaker helped break the land, fought prairie fires. Took political-science and law degrees at the University of Saskatchewan...
Fighting Retreat. In Forward Township, Pa., when Prohibition-minded citizens compelled the three-tavern area to take a local-option vote on beer and spirits, citizens voted narrowly against the continued sale of beer but for the sale of hard liquor...
...Populi. In Detroit, Law Student Frank Castelluccio noticed on his absentee ballot that no one was running for the New Buffalo, Mich, township's Highway Commissioner, idly wrote himself in, was elected by one vote...