Word: equality
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Both the Commission's report and the President's order were carefully drawn. Still, it was by no means certain that they would achieve their purpose: "Protection . . . against infiltration of disloyal persons into the ranks of [U.S.] employees, and equal protection from unfounded accusations of disloyalty [for] loyal employees...
...check of the 1920 Antwerp Olympic results revealed that little Finland (coached by Mikkola and boasting a population equal to that of Massachusetts) had helped itself to second place in the 44-nation track and field championships...
...Philippines concessions that the islands had to have, including free trade with the U.S. for eight years from 1946, 20 years of declining preferences. The second provided full payment of more than $620,000,000 in rehabilitation funds. In return, the Filipinos would have to grant U.S. citizens equal rights in "exploitation...
...National Association for the Advancement of Colored People seized upon the Houston mailman for a test case. Its argument: the U.S. Supreme Court decided in the Gaines Case (1938) that Negroes must be admitted to white schools, unless "equal facilities" are provided for them by the state. Texas' only state-supported Negro college, Prairie View, was nothing but an overgrown trade school, offered no law course at all. The Texas Attorney General argued right back: race segregation was a part of the state constitution and could not be changed...
...University to admit him, a cautious judge deferred decision for six months, in December turned down the petition. Sweatt appealed the case. This time, he and the N.A.A.C.P. left no doubt as to what they were really after. Fed up with half-measures and delays, they were demanding, not "equal facilities," but the abolition of segregation. "The requirements of the 14th Amendment," they insisted, "can only [thus...