Word: firsts
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...other was William Henry Hastie, 44, wartime civilian aide to the Secretary of War, and since 1946 governor of the Virgin Islands. Lawyer Hastie became the first Negro on the federal bench when he was appointed U.S. district judge in the Virgin Islands in 1937. Last week he was named to the third circuit court of appeals (Pennsylvania, New Jersey, Delaware and the Virgin Islands), thus became the first Negro appointed to the second highest court in the federal system. Able Governor Hastie got his advancement in the same week that a college classmate got a sharp reverse: Manhattan Councilman...
...husband-Abstract Artist John Pierce Anderson-are hardly horny-handed tillers of the soil. Eugenie Anderson has traveled in Europe, studied music in Manhattan's Juilliard School. She has an intellectual's taste in art, books and music. Nevertheless, the appointment, which made her the first U.S. woman to become an ambassador, seemed like a pleasant bit of business for all concerned...
...mineworkers whose own welfare and retirement fund was now shut off a few had their own ideas about a defense fund. "We believe a kitty should be raised to alleviate poverty in the mining fields first," said a 500-member Pennsylvania local of the U.M.W. in a telegram to Lewis. ". . . Charity begins at home...
...distinguished visitor with the brown, gem-cut face and Oriental costume stepped agilely from the Independence and shook President Truman's hand. He looked startled at the first manifestation of democracy, U.S. style; photographers were shouting to the President: "Bring Mr. Nehru over here." The President willingly obliged. But Jawaharlal Nehru, Prime Minister of India, regained his smile as Harry Truman welcomed him to the U.S. The President had a pleasant little speech ready: ". . . Destiny ruled that our country should have been discovered in the search for a new route to yours...
...quiet Sunday visit to Hyde Park to place a wreath on Franklin Roosevelt's grave, a ticker-tape parade through lower Manhattan. At the end of six days he was already beginning to feel overwhelmed. Said Pandit Nehru, smiling: "No one should have to see America for the first time...