Word: ethnics
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Schlatter (continuing): "We can expect to see a resurgence of criticism on ethnic jokes...
Already Hurt. There was some suspicion that Tito was overdramatizing the present Soviet threat for purely domestic reasons. A common enemy is about the only thing that will get Yugoslavia's five ethnic groups to stop their bickering, and for once, they are uncharacteristically quiet. Also, Tito used the emergency to put into uniform some of the student leaders who had been agitating for liberal reforms of Yugoslav society. Still, in the view of the Yugoslav officials, a certain amount of anxiety is justified...
...rank-and-file workers, especially in the ethnic neighborhoods of the North, are deserting the Democrats for the Wallace cause. Many Northern Democratic Congressmen are planning to instruct these voters how to split their tickets on Nov. 5 so that they can support Wallace without forgetting to pull levers for local Democrats. In the South, numerous conservative Democrats are openly allied with Wallace. Others are deserting to the G.O.P. Last week six cronies of Georgia's Senator Herman Talmadge, including State Comptroller General James Bentley, renounced their Democratic credentials and joined the Republicans. There is speculation in Atlanta that...
Some of Agnew's major miscues have been unintentional ethnic slurs. He jovially referred to a Japanese-American reporter accompanying him as a "fat Jap." In Chicago, where the Congressmen have names like Pucinski, Kluczynski and Rostenkowski, he answered a question about the dearth of Negroes in his audiences by saying: "Very frankly, when I am moving in a crowd I don't look and say, 'Well, there's a Negro, there's an Italian, and there's a Greek and there's a Polack.' " Before newsmen late last week, Agnew sought...
They are, in almost every case, the discontented, a classification that crosses ethnic, social and income barriers. Typically, outside the South anyway, they are factory workers or others in low-to middle-income brackets who are tired of being told that Negroes have equal rights. "I guess I'm what you might call a racist," explains Joe Galbraith, a millwright at Ford's Rouge complex outside Detroit. "I've lived with Negroes. I've slept with them. I've fought with them. And I've had it. These people want everything for nothing. They...