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Mexico rekindled a cross-border controversy last week with a new series of postage stamps of Memín Pinguín, a 1940s cartoon boy that resembles the Jim Crow-era caricatures of African Americans. The White House objected to the philatelic stereotyping, which follows President Vicente Fox's gaffe in May that Mexicans do jobs in the U.S. that "not even blacks want." The Rev. Jesse Jackson demanded a recall of the "Sambo-type" images. But a rep at the Mexican embassy insisted the stamps are misunderstood: "Speedy González has never been interpreted in a racial manner" in Mexico...
Charlie was unlucky enough to venture on the T during the 1940s, the dark days of exit fares. By collecting ten cents as travelers entered the trains and five cents as they departed, the Massachusetts Transit Authority (MTA) could raise funds without changing its fare-collection equipment...
...legend grew. In the 1930s, Henry Fonda played Lincoln on the big screen and stonecutters carved his face on Mount Rushmore; in the 1940s, Aaron Copland's magisterial Lincoln Portrait debuted; in the 1950s, Carl Sandburg held a joint session of Congress rapt with his speech that began, "Not often in the story of mankind does a man arrive on earth who is both steel and velvet, who is hard as rock and soft as a drifting fog, who holds in his heart and mind the paradox of terrible storm and peace unspeakable and perfect." In 1963, TIME put Lincoln...
...Lincoln, and blacks battled back by keeping slavery and Lincoln's image as the Great Emancipator at the forefront of the nation's memory." A common folktale in the mid--20th century South--which Leadbelly poignantly rendered in a song he recorded in the early 1940s--had Lincoln rising from the dead, coming down and bringing justice to the Jim Crow South...
...player in that fractured country's future ... Syrians consider Lebanon to be part of 'Greater Syria,' a vague concept of territorial grandeur that thrives more in memory than in reality. Indeed, the two countries share more than a millennium of history. Both Lebanon and Syria achieved independence in the 1940s, but cultural and family ties still bind their populations ... Says a Syrian official: 'Lebanon is the one issue on which any Syrian President would be prepared to take the greatest risk' ... At some point or another, every Lebanese faction has sought Syria's help. Syria's prominent role in Lebanese...