Word: blacking
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Dedham courtroom, there was a scene, wherein seven years of emotion simmered and boiled over. The Supreme Court of Massachusetts had finally and flatly rejected evidence for a new trial on the grounds that there had not been a "failure of justice." Judge Webster Thayer, clad in black robes, with a face as still and as pallid as an ancient cameo, entered the courtroom to sentence Messrs. Sacco and Vanzetti to the electric chair. Bluecoats fingered sawed-off shotguns. Secret service agents with crimson rosettes in their lapels posed as Reds. Women sobbed. The clerk droned: "Nicola Sacco, have...
Many an upper-class, conservative Negro, embracing the doctrine that the white man is superior to the black, accepts Nordic standards, regrets his dusky hue, shapes his life toward proving that his soul, at least, is white or near-white. More radical Negroes, notably the younger school of Negro writers, resent the assumption of white superiority, feel that black culture is different from but on an equal plane with white, maintain that the future of the colored race lies in its proudly being as black as it is painted...
...France and Britain round to permitting the restoration of a Habsburg king in Hungary, something Hungarians ardently desire (TIME, Nov. 29, Jan. 24). Since the time is not ripe for airing that project, however, all that Il Duce gave Count Bethlen last week by way of a "bonus" in black and white was an Italian note announcing that the Government of Italy will take steps to arrange with the Government of Jugoslavia for the reduced duty passage through Jugoslavia of Hungarian goods to and from the Italian port of Flume. With Jugoslavia encircled as she now is this project...
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...jury system, if it be kept as free from politics as possible, is without doubt the best system, to my mind. The censorship is not then an immovable thing in black and white, but a living, progressive thing which changes with the times...