Word: tulsa
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Tulsa last week tinsel decorations stretched across the main streets, and in Oklahoma City shoppers shivered against the cold. Outside the cities and towns, over stick-straight highways and the winding side roads, fast automobiles and trucks sped on late-night runs from close-to-the-border cities in Missouri and Texas. Artfully dodging police prowl cars, they slipped into Tulsa and Oklahoma City bringing bootlegged Scotch at $7 a fifth, vodka at $5.50 and gin at $5. Admiring the tinsel, feeling the cold, buying the whisky (in gift decanters), Oklahomans knew that the Christmas season was in full swing...
...September 1944, a U.S. Army colonel walked into Presidential Candidate Thomas E. Dewey's temporary headquarters in Tulsa, Okla. and told James Hagerty, Dewey's press secretary, that he had to see the Republican candidate on an urgent matter. His mission was so urgent that he would not even tell who had sent him, although he agreed to write a name on a piece of paper and place it in a sealed envelope for Dewey's perusal. When Dewey ripped open the envelope, he read the name of General George Catlett Marshall, Army Chief of Staff...
...back in the envelope and returned it to the colonel. He explained that he did not want to be bound in discussing important campaign issues. Two days later, in Albany, the colonel approached Dewey with a dispatch almost identical to the one he had refused to read in Tulsa...
...University of Missouri after a year to be a nightclub master of ceremonies in St. Louis. But at 20 he changed his mind, took over a dilapidated little church in Stroud. Okla., and made up his college work at the same time, graduating cum laude from the University of Tulsa in 1939. After two years of graduate work at the University of Chicago and a year as pastor in Los Angeles, he was ready to move in on oil-rich Oklahoma City...
...school districts with Negro pupils, only 540 have desegregated or are in the process of doing so. The border states have made the best records. Maryland has started desegregation in 15 of its 22 counties, Kentucky in 41 of its 184 districts. Oklahoma has integrated its schools in Tulsa, Oklahoma City, and 86 other districts. By next fall Texas will have desegregated 68 districts. And of Missouri's 67,000 Negro pupils, only 4,500 will still be going to segregated schools...