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...Negro would seem to have a great deal in common???in some ways more than America's other minorities. They share a tragic past, part of which is a history of persecution at the hands of a white Christian majority. As the traditional outsider, the Jew can feel a special sympathy for other outsiders. His skin is white, and if he wishes he can become assimilated as no black man can. But the Jew, too, has at times known a sense of separateness and racial difference that could be as marked as a dark skin. Thus, theoretically, the black...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Behavior: The Black and the Jew: A Falling Out of Allies | 1/31/1969 | See Source »

...your issue of June 15, Page 5, you quote Mr. Davey as not knowing of any buckeye trees in the state of Ohio. Surely some mistake has been made. Here in southern Ohio, the buckeye is one of our most common???I mean numerous?foresttrees. It grows everywhere. I have six in my back garden. I am confident that, in an afternoon's automobile ride around the Cincinnati hills, Mr. Davey or anyone else who knows trees could pick out 100 buckeyes. In the spring, they are the first of the trees to put forth their leaves and lovely flowers...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters: Harding Scored | 6/29/1925 | See Source »

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