Word: humanity
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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There are millions of good Germans, as everyone knows, and no one, certainly, wishes to hurt their feelings. But some of the best Germans share one trait of the worst-they only accept the word of Germans. The rest of the human race for them consists of four or five billion Jews, who cannot be expected to do justice to Germans. Only through the pressure of Germans will Germany be changed. This fact may teach a hard lesson, but it is one that will have to be learned. When Germans universally find that the universe detests their masters, and that...
...Hugo Black, only living man to have belonged to both the Ku Klux Klan and the U. S. Supreme Court, got a Thomas Jefferson medal from the Conference for being "the Southerner who has done most to promote human welfare...
Among 1,000 Southerners who swarmed into the auditorium of conservative Birmingham, Ala. last week for a Southern Conference for Human Welfare, were scores of Negroes, mostly educated. As this was a "progressive conference expressing the progressive spirit of the South," in response to the findings of President Roosevelt's National Emergency Council on "the nation's No. 1 economic problem" (TIME, July 18), blacks mingled freely with whites in selecting their seats. They did so, at least, for two days. Then the police of Birmingham appeared and, herding the black delegates into a segregated section, enforced...
...Negro delegates took their herding quietly. But before the Conference dispersed, after establishing itself as a permanent, continuing body, a signal resolution was passed without dissent: no future meetings for Human Welfare shall be held in any city having a Jim Crow...
...Harry Hopkins' Deputy Administrator, last week supplied one. Mr. Williams makes speeches extemporaneously or from rough notes. He is the man who last summer blurted at the Workers' Alliance to "keep your friends in power" in the elections. Last week, addressing the Southern Conference for Human Welfare at Birmingham, Ala. (see p. 13), where he used to work in a store, Deputy Williams was heard to say: "I am not sure that class warfare is not all right...