Word: forthwith
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...thing to do is scatter 'em. Panicky because Negro vote strength was rising in his county seat of Tuskegee (pop. 6,700), Engelhardt last May authored a gerrymander that jig-sawed more than 400 Negro residents-and the respected Negro Tuskegee Institute-outside the city's limits. Forthwith, the city of Tuskegee was hard hit by a Negro boycott (TIME, July 8) that slashed white merchants' business 50%, shut down stores that depended primarily on Negro trade. Incensed at the boycott, alarmed because Tuskegee-encompassing Macon County is 84% Negro, Senator Engelhardt, officer in the lily-white...
...truckers' legal eyes boring in upon him, Licensing Authority John Hanlon found an easy way out of the impasse. Young Derek Wiscombe had worked too hard at his menial tasks to bother keeping his accounts straight, could produce' no documentary evidence that his services were needed. Hanlon forthwith denied the application...
...Central Committee announced that Zhukov had been dropped forthwith from the Presidium. "The secretariat of the Central Committee has been instructed to provide him with other work...
...what they were-a call to shake off an age-old bondage fastened on them in the name of Mohammed and perpetuated by generations of mullahs (teachers). Taking courage from this display of feminist leadership and example from the royal family itself, thousands of women all over the country forthwith cast aside their veils and began talking briskly of emancipation...
...French forthwith forbade her to speak in public, correctly identifying her as one of those dangerously progressive forces encouraging nationalism. So did feudal old El Glaoui of Marrakech, who barnstormed the country flourishing a news picture of Aisha in a bathing suit, lolling on a beach with her brother, Prince Moulay Hassan. This was the kind of outrage that Sultan ben Youssef was bringing upon them, he cried. El Glaoui did not rest until he got the French to send the Sultan, Aisha, and the rest of the royal family (two wives, two other daughters, two sons, a gaggle...