Word: againe
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Discrimination and intolerance soon had a spokesman. Bellowed Texas' Ed Gossett: "The bill rewards the least deserving, the least desirable and the most dangerous of all people who would like to come to this country. . . The cream has been skimmed off those camps time & time & time again," until only...
The chief sufferers were 111 of the Batory's 683 passengers who were hustled off to Ellis Island because of "doubtful citizenship," medical reexamination, or some lingering doubt about their bonds. (Normally only a dozen to a score of passengers on an arriving vessel are held for inquiry.) Most...
The Chattanooga Times spoke the concern of many a Southerner: "[Picky Pie] Hill was murdered, but it is the South which again was lynched in the unreasoning fury of a cowardly mob." There was some question whether it was actually the act of a mob (see above). But inevitably, the...
No Memory. At the inquest, Tom Carswell, the Negro who had shared Hill's cell, shook perceptibly as he was questioned. "They were white and there were two of them," he said. Did he recognize them? "I know just about everybody around here, but I never saw those two...
Tomorrow the real grind begins again at Red Top, a monastic retreat where little occurs besides eating, sleeping, and rowing, with emphasis on the latter. The seriousness of this period can be appreciated when one considers that exams are solicitously delivered to Red Top by the administration. Let any other...