Word: belonged
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Race" conscious people make wild guesses as to the mentality of races. A group having an inferior culture, from out point of view, does not necessarily belong to an inferior race. Nationality and race cannot bear confusion. Contrary to the general opinion, or prejudice, are records of powerful Negro kingdoms in East and West Africa. For centuries Negroes have been skilled iron-workers; in 1500 they did bronze casting to perfection. Much of India's civilization is owed to Negroes. Seventy years of emancipation for the American Negro are no fair test of his capacity. See how Europeans estimated...
...Crimson, entered the economics department in 1934 after studying on Harvard fellowships in England and Austria. It was Instructor Walsh who, two years ago, organized the American Federation of Teachers' Harvard unit, under the name of the Cambridge Union of University Teachers, to which 130 faculty-men now belong...
...downer orchestra struck up Here Comes the Bride while a justice of the peace married two strikers. In Detroit, Checker Cab Co., which operates three-fourths of the city's taxis, had a drivers' strike, but many of the company's 600 cabs (which belong mostly in ones and twos to 400 individual capitalists) were operated by their owners...
This arrondissement in northern Paris is a factory workers' district, almost solidly Communist but with a minority of hard-headed little cafe and shop keepers who are tough - or with their middle-class ideas they would not live in Clichy. Some of these shopkeepers belong to the new French Social Party, successor to the bourgeois Croix de Feu league of gentle manly and insipid Colonel Count Casimir de La Rocque (TIME, April 20). Last week the Social Party hired the Olympia cinema house in Clichy for a special showing of their film La Bataille. Communists at once protested. Paris...
...cement, aluminum, food and filling station businesses, in at least two of which (aluminum and filling stations) there will be a collision with C.I.O. The C.I.O. countered by setting up committees to organize the 1,250,000 U. S. textile workers (only 85,000 of whom now belong to the United Textile Workers) and the petroleum industry. While William Green was sending out 50 fresh organizers, the C.I.O. laid plans for sending out 400 in the textile industry alone. More significant was the disparity between the two in dollars. Blithely C.I.O. appropriated $500,000 for its textile drive, announced...