Word: equalled
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...forget that in 1860 no Negro could be taught to read, write, figure, in that State, under rigid statutory law; that in 1930 the State of Louisiana through its public schools paid $40.64 to educate each white, $7.84 for each black child. Remembering this disgraceful disparity in providing equal opportunity for all its children, let them also remember the great tax-supported State university at Baton Rouge, for whites only, and the magnificent new Medical School built and supported in New Orleans by State Tax funds, where no Negro can enter...
...Hoover last week told the country: "Our people have ever been lovers of peace. . . . This Administration has spared no effort to bring about a reduction in arms. . . . These efforts are making progress. If these efforts finally fail we shall be compelled to build our Navy to the full strength, equal to that of the most powerful in the world...
...policy of the Superintendent as regards to athletics is as follows. Every cadet must participate in every form of athletics. There is no discrimination. All have equal opportunity. The factor of first importance must be the effect on the value of the Military Academy to the Army of the United States. Athletic training at West Point is given with a view to having each graduate thoroughly competent to impart instruction to enlisted men in at least a few sports. Athletic prowess to a graduate is invaluable...
Because of the handicap system, which is governed by previous performance, every entrant will have an equal chance of sharing in the five prizes to be awarded the winners. The first prize is a gold medal, the second, a silver, and three awards to the next men finishing...
...weeks before election the political U. S. looked like the map on this page. In choosing the next President Nov. 8, each state has an electoral vote equal to the number of its Representatives and Senators in Congress. The elective majority is 266 such votes. Nationwide presidential polls by The Literary Digest and the 26 Hearstpapers are reliable indices of what is in the political wind. The straw votes are supplemented and largely confirmed by studious political correspondents touring the country, by private business scouts, by astute politicians taking "off the record." TIME's map, no forecast, represents...