Word: blacks
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Quixote exclaiming to Sancho Panza Garner: "Seest thou not yon fortress of privilege, yon castle of finance?" ("Them's windmills. Boss." said Sancho.) Next he was Pharaoh, telling ''Little Joseph" Wallace: "I had a dream last night. There were seven nice fat budgets all printed in black ink and along came seven scrawny budgets all printed...
...lavished a small fortune on a blonde artists' model, asking $1,000 per week alimony. Given this new idea of his wealth, Mr. Christensen's 400 employes promptly decided that he could afford to pay them better wages, walked out on strike. Up in a big black limousine drove Mrs. Christensen to cheer on the strikers, march for an hour in their picket line. Said Mr. Christensen, peering from behind his office curtains, "She is most unreasonable and uncivil. ... I haven't any such money . . . there isn't any such money in this business...
...pounced on the Sit-Downers. Men pounded, pummeled, jabbed. Sit-Downers were soon trotting out with arms upraised, to run a walloping, stone-pelting gantlet. Just as the fight was ending, State police appeared, drove back the mob, began cleaning up the casualties-some 50 with bruises, cuts and black eyes, one man stabbed in the belly with an icepick...
...while prating of neutrality, has been winking at wholesale smugglery of munitions and warplanes from France to the Leftists, permitting Soviet general staffers to direct operations from French soil, enabling Russian bombing planes to arrive nightly. According to Editor Gayda, units of the Soviet Navy were steaming from the Black Sea last week bound through the Dardanelles for Spain and trouble. At Paris the office of the Premier denied nothing in detail, issued blanket denials and blanket charges of Italian bad faith...
...short with well-developed arm and back muscles. He wore a brief pair of shorts, white socks, and low sneakers that were badly torn. He also wore heavy black-horn rimmed glasses which were protected by a little wire and leather mask. He ran up and down the floor working his legs like pistons, with his hands stiffly beating the air at his sides. He carried his head high and his chest was puffed out so that he looked like nothing more than a cocky Mickey Mouse. Or I could have imagined him as Fanny Brice burlesquing the dance...