Word: blacks
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...philosopher from the moon, most fantastic sight in the U. S. last week would have been that of thousands of cultivators black and white trudging patiently out into the fields to plant another cotton crop. For if there was anything the U. S. apparently did not need, that thing was more cotton. Hanging over the market was an enormous carryover of 13,000,000 bales, twice as much as the U. S. would use in a busy year. The major part of this hoard-11,250,000 bales, 5,625,000,000 pounds-lies in warehouses in the South, assigned...
...hard upon the Black Shirts, they may be rather Swastika, But even Hitler had a mother and even Mussolini...
...Black-bearded Composer Alan Bush, professor at London's Royal Academy of Music, an industrious writer of acid, modernistic scores, has long believed that the only important function of music is to encourage revolution. In 1929, while staid London music lovers frowned and looked the other way, London's musical leftists, led by Composer Bush, drew throngs to a class-angled production of Handel's venerable sacred oratorio, Belshazzar. Handel's serene 18th-Century score was sung with traditional massiveness by a chorus of 1,800 voices. But it was so staged that the fall...
Rupert Lewis was pounding along the smooth Jackson-Vicksburg highway in his truck one night last week, trailing a car ahead. Suddenly the twin taillights in front of him melted into the road, disappeared. Driver Lewis caught a quick glimpse of a black gap in the concrete before his own truck plunged. The lights went out, water rushed into the cab. He smashed a window, somehow came up in a turgid flood...
...book will not make many Western converts, but the Yoga fortitude he showed is unquestionable. Ceremonials in the windowless temple room, lit with thousands of butter lamps, frequently lasted from sunrise to sunset, with 10,000 monks repeating one chant up to 108,000 times. Author Bernard braved the black chamber of horrors filled with fiendish and erotic idols, kept his head during four days of solitary confinement in a rock cave...