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Though Taft had scrupulously avoided the race issue-despite Stokes's needling about his upper-crust background -some of the Republican's aides openly injected color into the campaign. Perhaps in response to this pressure, Stokes a month before election day blurted during a debate that if Taft won it would be purely because of bigotry on the part of Clevelanders...
...This Torquemada to the liberals has proved that the responsible voice of conservatism can attract a considerably larger and younger following than the traditionally starchy upper crust which consisted of a handful of crumbs held together by their own dough...
...recipe: "The corn must be ground by finegrained stones, which would make 'flat' meal instead of 'round.' The meal should be made into dough and spread on the middle board of a red oak barrelhead [and then baked]. Only walnut coals were worthy, and the crust as it browned should be basted with cream...
...Nehru in 1958: "Old age seemed to have given him another face rather than merely wrinkling his features. In his voice, his poise, under the crust of the intellectual patrician, appeared the image-calm and gentle-of a man who no doubt from adolescence had educated himself to be a gentleman...
...Bravo! TIME has rewarded the councils of moderation with badly needed publicity. But as a Negro I am still convinced that white people do not understand the lines of cleavage among us. Whitney Young and others like him represent the upper crust. They claim to speak for their oppressed brothers in the ghetto but cannot even speak to them. Those of us who live in the ghetto are doomed to name our own leaders and to select our own representatives...