Word: blacks
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Under-Secretary John Hanes solved this phraseological problem at the Treasury by having printed in black on a batch of blue cards, to be attached to interoffice correspondence, an oft-repeated question of Secretary Morgenthau: "Does it contribute to Recovery?" At the White House, when Mr. Roosevelt expressed displeasure at "appeasement," correspondents asked him for a better word. He mused a while, then said he would look in his Thesaurus, tell them later...
Only Negro airman known to the U. S. at large is Hubert Fauntleroy ("Black Eagle") Julian, who once cracked up Haile Selassie's private plane in Ethiopia and is now in Manhattan, talking about flying. In fact, the U. S. has licensed 129 Negroes as commercial, private and student pilots, including Student Julian, whose license expired last year, and twelve women. Air-minded Negroes have learned to fly at six schools run by & for their race, at 43 more for whites and blacks...
...hours, no sign from the conclave. Then, at noon, the first sfumata-a curl of smoke from the Sistine Chapel chimney -was seen. By the black smoke the watchers knew that no Pope had been elected during the two morning ballots...
About 5:30 p.m. a noisy, excited throng churned into St. Peter's Square in front of the Vatican. What brought the crowd running now was news of a second sfumata. This one, through some mischance, had been first white, then black. But the white smoke meant that there had been an election. The crowd heaved forward as an enormous cloth, bearing the arms of the papacy, was suspended from St. Peter's balcony. Above it appeared a violet-clad form-Cardinal Caccia-Dominioni. Dean of Cardinal Deacons. Into a microphone which carried his words to loudspeakers...
...kind of speakeasy--swing-easies"--behind sound proof doors? "Joe sent me"--furtive men carrying hot choruses around in black satchels--"Yeah, the straight stuff's here--Norvo, Basie, they're all beatin' it out downstairs"--black trucks being hijacked for rare records--raids on dives where Louis Armstrong is tearing "Dinah" to shreds? We'll probably all end up playing Mickey Mouse piano with Shep Fields...