Word: hancockers
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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With our last report marked finis, finals about to stare sun down, and plane reservations being cancelled, the homecomings of many Chase stalwarts take on a more realistic air. It won't be long now until we are saying goodbye to J. A. Hancock, Luther L. Green, and the rest of the boys
...whites who have bravely taken the Negro's part (sheriffs who have braved mobs to protect Negro prisoners, women who have leagued against lynching, trade-union organizers who have risked life & limb), the authors pay tribute. But Negroes, says Dr. Gordon B. Hancock, are bewildered by the number of sympathetic whites whose "finer feelings are obscured beneath a lack of moral courage ... a kind of 'Pontius Pilatism.'" The more cynical Negroes merely conclude that the saving grace of the white man is "his lack of unanimity in any program ... of oppression...
...many a mark of his early training as an encyclopedist. Unlike the big "name" columnists, he approaches his job as some leisurely, penetrating small-town editors do, with no particular regard for column continuity. In seven columns last week, for example, he discussed the teaching of American history, John Hancock, nationalism, the value of keeping a diary, Ethan Allen, U.S. foreign policy, the liberation of France, colored book bindings, Jay Gould, feuding in Washington agencies, soap operas, the absence of advertising in French newspapers, George Washington, Russ Columbo's mother, pronunciations, Nazi fanatics, the League of Nations, the 1920s...
...combined connivance of the Management graders and the disbursing faculty has not been able to quench. The end of the second term is in sight, and with this consummation comes that added element of freedom which has been a shining beacon amid the trials and terrors of John A. Hancock, Ensign, S.C., (symbol number 58-977, by force of habit...
Down Taxes. Jimmy Byrnes, praising the Baruch-Hancock report, promised U.S. industry that as much of it as possible would be made effective by Presidential order, pending Congressional action. But on the question of taxes, which many a U.S. businessman considers the No. 1 postwar problem, Jimmy Byrnes was vague...