Word: veteran
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...editorial writing, St. Louis Globe-Democrat's Louis LaCoss, 62, veteran of 16 years on the paper's editorial page, for his editorial "The Low Estate of Public Morals...
Ferry, an associate professor of biochemistry, received his appointment some time before the House opened in 1930. Since his position dates from that time, Ferry is actually the veteran of almost 22 years of running the Puritan establishment...
...unemployed Air Force veteran named Joseph Saccomano climbed to the belfry of Our Lady of Mt. Carmel Church in The Bronx, and balanced there for an hour threatening to commit suicide. He ignored the pleas of priests, police and relatives. Then a photographer named Vincent Riccio looked upward and bellowed: "You're a chicken-livered, yellow phony . . . come on down and fight!" Snorting with rage, the would-be suicide scrambled down, was grabbed by the cops and toted off to have his head examined...
...Negroes jailed each year for failing to carry a pass. It is 60-year-old Jane Zuma, a Johannesburg washerwoman, trudging ten hot miles to deliver her mistress' laundry because she is not allowed to ride on the white man's buses. It is Veteran John Kumalo, a talented Negro broadcaster, beaten up and jailed on the way to his broadcasting studio, and released three days later, innocent of any offense. In Malan's "New Jerusalem," the black man works but he does not vote; he pays taxes, but government schools for Negroes scarcely exist...
...handicapped men & women employed by Goodwill last year to repair clothes, toys, antiques, etc., have gone into full or part-time jobs in private industry. Many others have set up their own shops in dressmaking, furniture repair tailoring, printing, painting, etc. It is no surprise to the veteran staffers at Goodwill to hear that a former employee is now supporting a family on his income...