Word: weaver
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Samuel Freedman, who runs a scrap business in Newark, could hardly be expected to know what Georgia farmers are thinking. But Samuel Freedman did know that he was short of workers: he wanted to increase his hired hands from 50 to 70. When Floyd Weaver, one of his Negro foremen, suggested a recruiting trip to Georgia, Samuel Freedman...
...Floyd Weaver had kept his ear to the ground he might have heard Georgia cotton and peanut farmers grumbling: one time farm workers were making $5, $6, $7 a day, and more, at war plants; long-opened cotton was standing unpicked in the fields; peanuts were languishing underground. Farmers, putting their wives and children to work, could not pick all the cotton, dig all the peanuts. They could not even pay farm hands $2 or $3 a day. They did not blame the workers...
...Flung Huey, seated with his dream girl, was in romantic feather. "Schutz a minute," he murmured. "Weaver lot of things to talk about. Bucher arms around me, honey, and Klein upon my knee...
Food. In Dover, Ohio, a goat chewed the $5 Federal stamp off Levi Weaver's windshield. In Nahunta, Ga., a schoolteacher's horse nibbled a dangling light bulb, was electrocuted...
...their leadership in the field and . . . combat command appropriate to the rank," jovial, mustachioed Edward P. King Jr., genial George M. Parker Jr., were raised from brigadier to major generals. For "leadership and gallantry" Colonel Harold H. ("Pursuit") George, St. Mihiel and Argonne veteran, trim James R. N. Weaver, Mississippi-born William E. Brougher, were made brigadiers...