Word: brutality
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...throwing as a source of youthfully brutal humor* is the college scrubwoman, "goody," "biddy" or "P-lady." Harvard's scrubwomen became a cause célèbre in the winter of 1929 when the Massachusetts Minimum Wage Commission complained that Harvard had for nine years paid its Widener Library scrubwomen but 35¢ an hour, whereas the legal minimum wage was 37¢. The Treasurer of Harvard University appealed to the State Legislature, pleading that the women were given a 20-minute rest period, not docked for it. Last March, led by Corliss Lament, son of Morgan Partner Thomas William Lament, 52 Harvard...
...Brutal, Arrogant, Prejudiced...
...United States might eventually be forced to occupy Liberia by treaty, as it did Haiti; in which event, one important difference should recommend itself to the Government: The occupying force should consist of Negro soldiers and Negro officers, instead of brutal, arrogant, prejudiced white Marines. Intelligent Negro officers are available on the reserve list, and they could bring to their task of ending slavery a sympathy and a tact that were conspicuously missing in the American occupation of Haiti...
...United States might eventually be forced to occupy Liberia by treaty, as it did Haiti; in which event, one important difference would recommend itself to the Government: The occupying force should consist of Negro soldiers and Negro officers, instead of brutal, arrogant, prejudiced white Marines. Intelligent Negro officers are available on the reserve list, and they could bring to their task of ending slavery a sympathy and a tact that were conspicuously missing in the American occupation of Haiti...
...wrote last week the Negro editor of Harlem's Amsterdam News But "brutal, arrogant, prejudiced" were no words to apply in Negro newspaper or elsewhere to at least one U. S. Marine in Haiti, the Marine known as King Wirkus I of La Gonave, whose Haitian career, unusual and newsworthy, approached its end last week...