Word: creed
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Executive Order 9346 says that all contracts with the U.S. Government must contain a clause forbidding discrimination against workers because of race, color, creed or national origin. Last month, Comptroller General Lindsay C. Warren said the order was merely a "directive." Last week Franklin Roosevelt straightened out all misunderstandings: "I ... wish to make it perfectly clear that these provisions are mandatory...
From every weakening creed...
...stadium was jampacked with 25,000 persons. Concessions were closed, so there were no cries of "Hot Dog!" or "Popcorn!" Neither did the milling crowds light cigarets or cigars until the service was over. They heard sacred music on the stadium organ, listened to scripture reading, recited the Apostolic Creed, pledged allegiance to the flag, roared Luther's battle hymn, A Mighty Fortress Is Our God, put $15,260 into the collection, heard Indiana's Lutheran Governor Henry F. Schricker talk about the church in the postwar world, and, best of all, saw and heard Dr. Maier...
...Board of Governors also voted into membership a Negro, Municipal Court Justice James S. Watson of New York City.* At its final session, the convention resolved that "membership in the American Bar Association is not dependent on race, creed or color." But Applicant Rivers is still waiting...
...laws which discriminate on the basis of race, color or creed will be annulled...