Word: formerly
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...West; most live in misery. Many are agricultural laborers from the East's rich farmlands, who cannot find work in the Western industrial economy. West Germans bitterly resent the refugees, accuse them of taking away their jobs and living space. Most refugees are herded into dirty, former Nazi camps, like the one at Dortmund which townspeople ironically call "Sing Sing...
...Veldt. Three years ago a message came to Scott in Johannesburg from black friends on the veldt: in South West Africa, a former German colony mandated by the League of Nations to the Union of South Africa, the white men were plotting to defraud the black men of their heritage. It was the "sacred trust" of a mandatory power to prepare native peoples for self-government. Instead, the Union of South Africa was preparing to annex South West Africa and force its black men (300,000 v. 30,000 whites) into a degrading system of racial discrimination (TIME...
Hastie is a former District Judge of the Virgin Islands and has been governor of the Islands for the past three and a half years...
...Luce, a playwright and former Connecticut Congressional representative, has just returned from Europe...
Shepard has been teaching his men fundamentals, methodically recording the progress of each member of his 21-man squad. "I grade 'em all just like a professor would," drawls the former Davidson College coach. "They've been showing a lot of improvement...