Word: blacks
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Norton repeated her plea of many months: that the committee either grant an out-&-out "gag" rule to her New-Deal-approved amendments to the wage-hour law when they reached the House floor, or grant no rule at all. Chairlady Norton, whose crisp black (undyed) hair belies by 20 years her age (64), feared the committee would grant her only an "open" rule. That would let Graham Barden of North Carolina substitute on the House floor his own wage-hour amendments, which are anathema to the New Deal. Mr. Barden's amendments would take 2,000,000 workers...
...have a peerless Air Force. But there is no sure defense against air raids and if Germany starts bombing London the one thing that might worry Berlin is a retaliatory raid. When the first "raid" occurred last week thousands of Berliners were hurrying home from work. Red flares, black flags, and roped-off streets indicated places that were "hit." Anti-aircraft guns blazed at imaginary targets with blank shells while firemen sprayed make-believe fires and first-aid crews bandaged the sound arms and legs of placarded "wounded." The tests were intended to last five days, but sleep-loving Berliners...
...Into the black sky above the Hollywood Bowl in Hollywood, Calif, four great searchlights stabbed. They stood like steady swords of light-or like the beams thrown up at Germany's annual Nuremberg Party Congresses. But these four rays signalled the four standards of Moral Re-Armament: Absolute Honesty, Purity, Unselfishness, Love. MRA, launched in the East this spring, had been brought to the West Coast by Dr. Frank Nathan Daniel Buchman and 1,000 followers, many of whom traveled across the land on a 22-car "MRA Special." In the Hollywood Bowl, the Buchmanites sat on the stage...
...throng of Atlantans, ringing Terminal Station Plaza, cheered and handclapped as a white-haired man, large of frame, square of face, firm of jaw, stepped from the station. Atlanta's Mayor William Berry Hartsfield, a representative of Georgia's Governor Eurith Dickinson Rivers, Baptist ministers white and black greeted him-Rev. Dr. George Washington Truett, best-known Baptist in the world. He had arrived in Atlanta last week to preside over the sixth congress of the Baptist World Alliance...
...Mills that manufacture brown paper obtain a black liquor from which chemicals can be recovered. Mills (like Marathon) that manufacture fine paper discard sulphite liquor...