Word: blacks
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Justices Black and Stone, in separate opinions, found nothing in the U. S. Constitution to render Federal salaries immune. In a concurring opinion, Justice Frankfurter observed: "Whether Congress may, by express legislation, relieve its functionaries from their civic obligations to pay the benefits of the State governments under which they live, is matter for another...
...riches and resources to his steadily growing Third Reich. Since he seized Czechoslovakia fortnight ago, the Mehrer has so enlarged his military and economic empire that at week's end he had effective control of Europe from the Baltic to the Rhine and from the North to the Black...
...Rumania concedes to Germany free ports on the Danube and Black Sea (something like the foreign concessions in China...
...Meantime, at the other end of Tennessee, in Memphis, a colleague of Mr. Cowan was doing likewise. Lean-&-hungry-looking Rev. Howard ("Buck") Kester, secretary of the Fellowship, appeared at a meeting of the Southern Tenant Farmers Union, preached a "funeral sermon" over a "coffin" (a black cigar box) representing the United Cannery, Agricultural, Packing & Allied Workers Association (C. I. O. union), from which S.T.F.U. had broken off (TiME, March 20). Said "Buck" Kester: "I have racked my memory for something good to say about the deceased, but I have found none...
...brilliant, baleful Vermeer; his images are obsessive, malignant, and recur in painting after painting: unearthly shores and infinite plains, cliffs glowing with sunset, exhausted human profiles on flesh-blobs like stranded sea cows, attenuated human limbs held up by forked props and peduncles, shiny French telephones, lustrous big black ants. No. 1 criticism of Dali is that he repeats himself too much: he is unfortunately limited as a dreamer. No. 2 criticism is that his weaker paintings show the feverishness and cheapness of the merely "good idea...