Word: gunter
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Richmond "open" golf tournament. The local club was willing to let them play, but the all-powerful Professional Golfers' Association, which all the leading pros belong to, has a "Caucasian clause." The three excluded golfers-Ted Rhodes (who taught Joe Louis how to play), Bill Spiller and Madison Gunter-thereupon sued the P.G.A. and the club...
Switch Foreman William Gunter, who has spent 36 of his 62 years with the Wabash Railroad, broke...
Jackson drew a long breath and Switchman Gunter took it up from there. "Suppose the dispatcher holds up a freight two or three hours before he gets a spot for it. The crew doesn't get paid the first 15 minutes he's fiddling around. And then there's this assigning crews to different types of work. Say a crew's worked eight hours on a packinghouse job and the yardmaster says to make up another train afterwards and it only takes two hours. We want eight hours pay for the second...
...when Texas weather was at its sultriest, an ambulance clanged up to the big downtown Gunter Hotel in San Antonio, picked up a pretty blonde, not over 19, who was lying on a davenport, got her to Robert B. Green Memorial Hospital just before her baby was born. Later that week the young mother was able to tell her story. She had come from a north Texas town four days earlier to rejoin her husband, a cadet at the San Antonio aviation cadet school. Tired and worn down after fruitless room-hunting, she had spent three nights in the ladies...
...Ralph Weymouth, married to a French girl, talked world affairs. Neil Weary was the playboy. Dick Balenti was called The Chief because his Indian blood showed. Al Wright passed the cigars every evening and told, magic tales of Hollywood. They and their companions all leaned on the enlisted men-Gunter, Johnston, Farrell and the others...