Word: americans
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Germany. When I look at the photograph of these young St. Louis ruffians ... I remember that 15 years ago the same type of German youth was beating Jews in the streets of German cities, burning synagogues and carrying on street fights against their own government. What has happened to American civilization, the American home, the American church, and our educational system, that it produces or tolerates this sort of conduct? And why should the St. Louis law enforcement agencies be so lenient with such rioters? Is closing the pools to Negroes the answer? Is the assault...
...issue, the MARCH OF TIME made this documentary film of General Dwight Eisenhower's best-selling book, Crusade in Europe, at the request of 20th Century-Fox, which had bought the television rights from the publishers, Doubleday & Co. It is being telecast in 26 weekly episodes by the American Broadcasting Co., and TIME and LIFE are its sponsors...
...this country we have a special kind of head start, for we can usually depend on our American press-newspapers, radio, and magazines-to give us straight facts, to keep us fully informed, to help us understand. Now television, with programs like this one, can add a new dimension: true understanding of our own history and of our future...
...salary and bonus. He made $258 an hour. General Motors will give him $25,000 a year when he is too old to work but too young to die ... If you make $1.65 an hour they say you don't need it... We say to American industry, if you can afford to pay pensions to people who don't need them, then by the eternal gods you are going to pay them to people who do need them-the guys in the shop...
...American with big feet and a hole in his sock squatting on the floor and putting boyish questions to the tiny, tired Mahatma...