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King: "Please accustom yourself to addressing me correctly. What is this yoti...
...Negro came within an ace of being nominated to the state legislature. Lawyer Oliver W. Hill, one of 18 candidates for Richmond's seven lower-house seats, finished eighth with 6,310 votes, just 190 short of nomination. Said the Richmond Times-Dispatch: "We may as well accustom ourselves to the thought that the Negro citizens of the Old Dominion may send one of their number to the General Assembly before many years are past...
About three weeks of grace will be given to car owners while they accustom themselves to the new-fangled contraptions before Cambridge police start tagging violators of the new traffic laws. After that period, motorists will pay five dollars a minute for their illegal parking if caught...
...Association proclaimed the dissatisfaction resulting from high and rising prices, labor disputes, and "the fat dividend melons being cut by many of the country's large corporations" should be countered not by lower prices or wage increases but by a high-powered publicity program to win public confidence and accustom consumers and workers to existing conditions...
Realism & Calvinism. "The one thesis," wrote Niebuhr, "is directed against the Christian doctrine of the sinfulness of man. The argument runs roughly as follows: To believe in the sinfulness of man is to believe in total depravity. To believe in total depravity is to accustom men to evil. Every step in this logic is false...