Word: equaled
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Last month FEPC bluntly ordered 16 Southern railroads to stop discriminating against Negroes, to give them an equal shot with whites at almost all jobs, including the best paid, most aristocratic job a Negro can aspire to in the South, that of railroad fireman. Last week the railroads replied with equal bluntness. Said they...
...high, hot talk, the tall, tough new FEPChairman Malcolm Ross, 48, had a ready answer. FEPC, said Mike Ross, did not contemplate promoting Negroes to the job of engineers. FEPC merely wanred to restore the Negroes' chance to rise to the job of fireman, to give them an equal chance at other jobs down the line. He cited figures showing a recent shortage of 850 firemen on U.S. railroads, although trained Negro firemen were unemployed. Chairman Ross was itching for a showdown. Said he: "We may not be able to wipe out discrimination overnight, but where war manpower needs...
...FEPC, and the Democratic Party, are under equal pressure from Negroes. FEPC, itself, was established as the result of a Negro threat in 1941 to march, 50,-ooo strong, on Washington. The threatener: Florida-born, New York-educated A. (for Asa) Philip Randolph, 54, who, though no porter himself, runs the airtight sleeping car porters union. He has been the main author of the relentless pressure on FEPC ever since. In political terms, if FEPC moves forward, it is damned by Southern Democrats; if it stands still, it receives the scorn of the Negro population-and may lose...
...where wealth was the reward of ingenuity, and the common good was the result of wealth, when patents, like decorations for heroism, were signed by the President, and the capitalist who backed a new mechanical device to better the lot of mankind (and make a private fortune) was the equal of a general, a commissar, a duke, or a mechanic...
High-ranking among 1943's novels, less by its own accomplishment than because of the mixed quality of the year's fiction, was Arthur Koestler's Arrival and Departure ($2). By no means equal to his Darkness At Noon, Koestler's latest novel was a graphic account of the sufferings of an ex-Communist for whom a sardonic psychoanalyst tries to provide an easy way out of the struggle against Fascism...