Word: greaser
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Joined the nation in a chorus of cluck-clucking amazement when it was discovered that the Rt. Hon. James Henry Thomas, onetime engine greaser, now Secretary of State for the Dominions, had signed above King George and Queen Mary on the bridal register of the Duke and Duchess of Kent...
While reading your article on New Mexico's Cutting under the caption Letters [TIME, Oct. 22], I noticed you use the term "greaser...
...order to better understand this term and the cause for its usage, I would like to question the editorial staff of TIME as to the origin and present application of the term "greaser...
...least as long as 85 years ago Westerners called Mexicans "greasers," according to Ruxton's Life Far West, "from their greasy appearance." The name stuck to the poorer class of Mexican, and in that sense TIME characterized Senator Bronson Cutting as "the faithful friend of the lowly 'greaser...
...Emperor George V to reinstate her son. When Tshekedi was disciplined she cabled to Buckingham Palace. "O King, release for me the boy!" Actually King George signed the order reinstating Chief Tshekedi on the advice (i.e. instructions) of his Dominions Secretary, bluff, hearty James Henry ("Jim") Thomas, onetime engine greaser...