Word: antis
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...undeniably true, as the pamphlet Race in the News reveals, that numerous Southern editors still cater to anti-Negro prejudice, thus flagrantly ignoring their responsibilities both for better newspapers and better race relations . . . [However], in addition to such "laudable exceptions" as the Chattanooga Times, I certainly wish to include the Nashville Banner . . . And surely the Greensboro daily News, the Charlotte Observer and the Durham Herald, all published in North Carolina, deserve honorable recognition, as does the Columbia (S.C.) Record...
Boston's anti-Curley Democrats and Republicans had refused to form a coalition. The noisiest of them was young (38), tough Democratic Candidate Patrick J. Sonny McDonough who had a lot of tricks from Curley's book. He was tearing through the streets like a wild man, handing out free combs to the ladies and green address books to the men, singing Galway Bay and reciting Curley's sins at the top of his lungs. Another Democrat (John B. Hynes), a Republican and a Progressive were also clacking away at Curley's sins...
Burdick wanted it understood that his criticisms had nothing to do with the way he had been treated at Oxford. "The anti-Americanism of Oxford is complex and subtle, [but] the sting [has been] taken out of it by the fact that it is fashionable to have an American friend. Perhaps it is for the same reason that the courts used to find the muscular slow-witted barbarian from Asia a curiosity and a comfort to have about. The role is somewhat uncertain, but it is interesting...
...Brooklyn, a taxpayer's suit had asked that Oliver Twist and The Merchant of Venice be banned from New York City public schools on the ground that Fagin and Shylock were "antiSemitic and anti-religious." Last week, State Supreme Court Justice Anthony J. DiGiovanna said no. He held that the test was whether either book had been "maliciously written" to rouse prejudice, ruled both Dickens and Shakespeare in the clear...
...publicity, mainly due to the fact that Loyalty hearings are generally closed ones. In at least two publicized cases, however, including last year's notorious Remington trial, unconfirmed charged of association, similar to those obtainable from these statements, were used to fire government personnel although they swore they were anti-communist. The adequacy of the loyalty boards in applying this information is still pretty doubtful...