Word: americans
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Socièté des Quarante et Huit Chevaux is the fun-loving, hot-footing, fanny-pinching, hose-squirting, town-wrecking branch of the American Legion. Commonly known as the 40 & 8 Society, it took its name from the French boxcars used to transport U.S. doughboys to the Western Front in World War I. The boxcars could hold 40 men or eight horses, but the 40 & 8 Society is more exclusive: along with horses, it bars nonwhite men (except for American Indians...
...tenth straight year to force the 40 & 8 to accept nonwhites-and for the first time the motion came to a floor vote. Pushing hardest behind it were the Legion's California delegates: the Santa Clara chapter of 40 & 8 had lost its charter after admitting an American of Chinese ancestry. In the 90° temperature of Minneapolis Auditorium, the oratory came to a boil. "Those who would introduce bigotry in our organization," cried the Rev. Edward Goodwin, chaplain of the Hawaiian Department, "are bastards of Satan!" But when all the shouting was over, the American Legion voted...
...painful case of bursitis), Nixon nonetheless got in his licks. A burst of applause greeted his statement: "It [the Khrushchev trip] could contribute to the chance that we can settle our differences without war, and it is for this reason I believe the visit deserves the approval of the American people...
...Baghdad he conferred with officials of the Russian, Czech, Bulgarian and Yugoslav missions. In Communist Yugoslavia he told interviewers: "It is our wish to see and perhaps apply Yugoslav experiences in Cuba"; in New Delhi he told the pro-Communist weekly Blitz: "We have on our soil a North American base. It is easy to shake off Batista and the landlords, but not American bases." In Ceylon he told newsmen: "Don't believe the American press." In Karachi, where he spent 55 minutes of a scheduled one-hour interview fulminating against "American agents" and the U.S. State Department...
...bemedaled then, beset now-symbolizes a growing U.S. distaste for dictators. For decades the U.S. was accused of buttering up strongmen. Eager to thaw anti-Yankee Juan Perón, for example, the State Department sent Latin American Chief Henry Holland to Argentina in 1954 to toast the dictator for "purest sincerity." The U.S. propped Nicaragua's Anastasio ("Tacho") Somosa, who seized power after the Marines pulled out, on Franklin Roosevelt's theory that "he may be an s.o.b., but he's ours." In Peru, Military Strongman Manuel Odria got the Legion of Merit for running...