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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Park, white swimmers drifted back to the locker room in sullen anger when the first Negroes splashed into the outdoor pool. Outside the pool fence, a mob of some 200 teen-agers collected. Police arrived in time to escort the Negroes safely from the park. But all that afternoon fist fights blazed up; Negro boys were chased and beaten by white gangs. In the gathering dusk, one grown-up rabble-rouser spoke out. "Want to know how to take care of those niggers?" he shouted. "Get bricks. Smash their heads, the dirty, filthy...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: MISSOURI: Gentleman's Agreement | 7/4/1949 | See Source »

From the other end of the line spoke Florida's Claude Pepper. In Taft's mellow old age, he predicted, Taft would remember with more pleasure his support of federal housing, education, medical aid, "than he will recall his Herculean success in putting the retarding fist of his power in the face of the multitudes struggling up the ladder of life to enjoy a few of the satisfactions to which the fortunate were born...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE CONGRESS: Hot Words | 6/20/1949 | See Source »

...Fist of His Power." What little chance the Administration had of putting over its bill (reenactment of the Wagner Act with a little stiffening) was knocked galley west when John L. Lewis called his coal strike (see below). Propositions for labor bills were sticking out of virtually every other Senator's pocket. But there was not enough support for any one proposition to put it over...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE CONGRESS: Hot Words | 6/20/1949 | See Source »

Your Dennis cover shows only 22 strings dangling from the closed fist. Does Artist

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, May 16, 1949 | 5/16/1949 | See Source »

Estin also provided the dramatic highspot of the game by having a fist-fight with the defenseman who was assigned to guard him. Both were given two-minute penalties for "unnecessary roughness...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Lacrosse Varsity Beats Tufts Easily, 12-5 | 5/12/1949 | See Source »

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