Word: allowables
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Negro had actually been a member of the grand jury which swiftly reindicted Patterson. However, it was one thing to allow a Negro to participate briefly in such a routine ceremony, and quite another to permit one to serve in the body that actually decided Patterson's fate. Every Negro in Alabama knew this. Therefore, the twelve black veniremen in Decatur last week were thoroughly uncomfortable. Judge Callahan was in no mood to put them at their ease. He had a few chairs placed outside the jury box for the Negroes to sit on. When one stage-struck blackamoor...
...expected to be Damiens; a man may conceive his duty more narrowly, he may love his comforts better; none will cast a stone at him for that. But will a gentleman of your reverend profession allow me an example from the fields of gallantry? When two gentlemen compete for the favor of a lady, and the one succeeds and the other is rejected, and (as will sometimes happen) matter damaging to the successful rival's credit reaches the ear of the defeated, it is held by plain men of no pretensions that his mouth is, in the circumstance, almost...
Always Torvald Hoyer was the Understander.* At the cry of ''Hep!" he would arch his chest, flex his muscles and allow the rest of the Montrose Six to swarm all over him, stand on his head, festoon themselves from his arms. This went on for years. Playing Switzerland one year, he met and married a Danish toe dancer...
...Lansing were siding with Britain against Germany, fought hard to restore the balance of neutrality. When Secretary Lansing privately argued that loss of life (German submarines) merited more drastic treatment than loss of property (British blockade). Stone pointed out that German babies were dying because Britain would not allow the U. S. to send them condensed milk...
President William S. Paley of Columbia Broadcasting: "It is our policy not to sell time for political broadcasts until after the party conventions next summer. We will not allow dramatization of political issues if time is bought after the conventions...