Word: anti-negro
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...Chandler's boozy sojourn in Hollywood -where he wrote the script for Double Indemnity and Strangers on a Train-McShane does little more than apologize for his reticent and rude subject. Like one of Marlowe's villains, Chandler was anti-Semitic and anti-Negro in inclination, alcoholic in practice and notably hostile even to those who praised...
...From that moment on," Jackie Robinson said, "I defended myself against anti-Negro insults with all the force at my command." His stick grew no smaller, but his footsteps rang loud and proud. He took no grief and did not hesitate to let the world know what he thought was wrong with...
...appeared severely stung when the annual convention of the moderate N.A.A.C.P. gave an ovation of cheers to a blanket denunciation of the Administration's racial policies by the organization's board chairman, Bishop Stephen G. Spottswood. The 72-year-old black leader accused the Administration of being anti-Negro and charged that it has adopted a "calculated policy to work against the needs and aspirations of the largest minority of its citizens...
...isolated phenomenon, and illustrated what is shaping up as a comeback of Trumanesque proportions. Just two months ago, Lindsay's re-election chances were being written off as almost hopeless. Reviled in much of his own city, the target of a middle-class revolt that had anti-Negro undertones, rejected in the Republican Party primary, the ambitious, activist mayor seemed almost destined to lose. Waiting to restore Democratic rule was bumptious, volatile Comptroller Mario Procaccino, who proclaimed himself the champion of the "average man" (TIME cover...
...nominee, Clement Haynsworth of South Carolina, whose approval is by no means certain (see THE NATION). For another, Burger shows no sign of wanting to lead the court in a headlong retreat from the past 16 years. "We are unlikely to see a sudden return to some strange, anti-defendant, anti-Negro, anti-reapportion-ment court," says Professor Arthur Sutherland of Harvard Law School. "Time is running the other...