Word: color
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Feature had sold the work to more than 300 newspapers and hoped for 200 more. Calling The Life of Our Lord "the literary find of a century," Hearst papers in New York, Baltimore, Detroit, San Francisco & Boston launched it last Sunday in the first of three four-page, full-color supplements. And on the heels of this journalistic venture in piety followed others which led churchmen to wonder if the U. S. was entering a great religious revival...
...women were of darker complexion with 39 per cent of brunet skins to 31 for the men. The commonest color of hair was golden brown; dark brown and black hair was found to be commoner in men, while red hair was twice as frequent in the female sex. Golden blend hair was more often found in males, but due to the higher average age of the females, they were the more predominantly gray-haired...
Your issue of March 12, p. 11, col. 3, re Sylvester Harris, the Mississippi gentleman of color and his success in negotiating a Federal Land Bank loan as the result of a personal 'phone call to the White House: Do you suppose the same system would work if applicants for Home Owners' Loan Corp. assistance were to invest the necessary amount of toll charge to the same end? Or does it only work in Mississippi? Or with the Land Bank exclusively? Or only with colored people...
...indeed deadly when they read last week Germany's export and import totals for February. In February, 1933. Germany had had a favorable trade balance of about 30,000.000 marks. Last month it had an unfavorable trade balance of 34.600.000 marks. Examined more closely, however, the figures changed color completely. Reason for the deficit was a 10% decline in German export prices. Actually, figured in quantities, German exports for February, 1934 were well above those for February, 1933, before the boycott began. Furthermore, the high import total was explained by the fact that the Nazi leaders have lately prodded...
...relief the whole race problem in the country. When representatives of the American people in Congress assembled sanction inequality, it is difficult to condemn the injustice of lynch law and trials similar to that of the Scottsbore boys. If Congress refuses rights to one minority group on account of color, it may refuse rights to other minority groups on account of creed nationality amount of wealth, or any other principle...