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...exploits of New York City's vigorous young Racketbuster Thomas Edmund Dewey* not only gave impetus to a new cinema vogue but set up a lively demand for real life counterparts as well. Last month, before his legislature met, Missouri's Governor Lloyd Crow Stark published a tempting want ad. If any place needed a Dewey, thundered the Governor, it was that haven of corruption, Kansas City, stamping ground, of his old enemy, Boss Tom Pendergast. Governor Stark ordered his Attorney General Roy McKittrick to go into action. Last week the play was taken out of McKittrick...
...nation's No. 1 economic problem" (TIME, July 18), blacks mingled freely with whites in selecting their seats. They did so, at least, for two days. Then the police of Birmingham appeared and, herding the black delegates into a segregated section, enforced the city's Jim Crow...
...Negro delegates took their herding quietly. But before the Conference dispersed, after establishing itself as a permanent, continuing body, a signal resolution was passed without dissent: no future meetings for Human Welfare shall be held in any city having a Jim Crow...
...Representative Arthur W. Mitchell of Chicago, only Negro member of Congress, last week lost his case before ICC against Chicago, Rock Island & Pacific Railway for kicking him out of a Pullman seat when one of its trains entered Arkansas, making him ride in a Jim Crow day coach (TIME, May 24, 1937). ICC ruled that demand for Pullman accommodations by Negroes is so small it would be unfair to ask railroads to Supply separate Pullmans so as to comply with local Jim Crow laws...
...strikes as rapidly as his legs can move) and the single-stroker (who waits for an opening, then knocks out his opponent with a well-placed stab). Some matches are over in five seconds, others last 45 minutes; but a really game cock never quits until he can crow over his dead opponent-or is dead himself...