Word: greasers
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Reilly Helen Keyes, HullJohn C. Robbins, Jr. Hephizibah McWeebles, Dunkling-in-CharlesPaul C. Rodgers Jr. Elizabeth McCarthy, Syracuse, N. Y.Melvin H. Rodman Phyllis Ourieff, BrooklineRochester H. Rogers Jr. Margery Williams, WorcesterJoseph Romano Catherine Pindo, BrooklynWilliam L. Roney Virginia Reed, Long IslandWalter N. Rothschild Polly Faulkner, CambridgeWilbur H. Sawyer Lois Greaser, Haddenfield, N. J.Francis X. Scannell Margaret McLaughlin, RoslindalePaul J. R. Schlessinger Anne Singer, CambridgeHeinzdieter von Schoenermarck Dorothy Rick, BrooklineMarvin J. Shapiro Sylvia Shugarman, CambridgePhilip P. Sharples Georgiana Pratt, Chestnut HillLawrence K. Shaul Groen Tucker, Scranton, Pa.Harvey P. Sleeper Margaret Bassett, Rockville Center, L. I.Lawrence H. Sloane Janet Barrow, BrooklineGurdon...
...proletariat. "Judas!" roared the miners of Seaham at snowy-crested Candidate James Ramsay MacDonald and broke up his meetings again & again. When Ishbel MacDonald. no longer apple-cheeked but pale with strain, tried to speak for her father, she too was jeered off the platform. So was onetime Engine Greaser James Henry ("Jim") Thomas, Dominions Secretary. At the famed waxworks of Madame Tussaud, where the National Government may be seen in session any day, the dummies most definitely slated to disappear were those of Ramsay and Jim. With unction rich, Prime Minister Baldwin took it upon himself to tell Demos...
...Were astounded at a slip of the tongue by social-climbing Dominions Secretary James Henry ("Jim") Thomas. That onetime engine greaser seemed to imply that His Majesty's Government plan to avoid the general election constitutionally due by November 1936, at the latest, by declaring the Empire in a "state of emergency" under which the National Government could rule for three years more...
...Greaser" Protest...
Sirs: ... [I wish] to support the implied protest of Mr. Gutierrez concerning the use of the term "greaser" in your magazine [TIME, Nov. 12], The majority of Spanish American people in New Mexico are farmers and herders, and therefore are in general poor. By applying the term "greaser" to them you apply it to a large minority, if not to a majority of the population of the State. To these people the term is obnoxious as is "nigger" to a Negro, and with equal reason, since it is an expression of ignorant racial contempt on the part of the self...