Word: caucasian
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...other hand, however, there are some 60,000 Hawaiian-born Japanese in the Islands, and as they reach voting age they will constitute a considerable portion of the Islands' voting strength. In any consideration of the situation in Hawaii, it must be remembered that a relatively few Caucasian families, descendants of missionaries and traders who came to the Islands long before the arrival of U. S. dominion, control most of the Island wealth. The Islands are dominated by a comparatively small minority of their inhabitants...
...eccentricities of the bad man are noteworthy. He worships weird, heathen deities while masquerading as a Caucasian Christian. He knows secret trap doors, cells, torture chambers, depraved henchmen. He keeps a dwarf brother locked up in a stifling cage. In short, he inspires the belief that if anything can be more astonishing than the cinema version of virtue, it is its conception of vice...
...Author Carl Van Vechten, Caucasian, who took up Negroes as an esthetic fad, then pictured them as depraved, in a book full of Harlem dives, dope peddlers, degenerates...
...Louisiana laws and a New Orleans ordinance, which attempted to segregate Caucasian and Negro residential districts, were declared unconstitutional by the U. S. Supreme Court last week. Refusing to take stock in the contention that conditions have changed, Chief Justice William Howard Taft simply pointed to a Supreme Court opinion of 1917 which declared that a Louisville (Ky.) ordinance invaded "the right to acquire, enjoy and use property which is guaranteed in equal measure to all citizens, white or colored, by the 14th Amendment...
...vexing problems. Professor Dowd analyzes various schemes for the solution of the Negro problem-civil equality, amalgamation, colonization, segregation, creation of a Black Belt Free State-and finds them all insufficient or impossible. He concludes that there is no solution, that there has always been friction where Negroes and Caucasians have lived side by side. The Negro's chance of survival is not as good, biologically or economically, as the Caucasian's. However, both the Negro and the friction will remain for centuries. The friction can be lessened, but not obliterated, by education of the Negro...