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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Motorists of the State suffer further by the inferior gasoline as taxes encourage bootlegging. For example, an unscrupulous dealer in Hancock County might mix kerosene with his gasoline, and thus avoid a considerable part of the State and county taxes amounting to 9?. The amount he would avoid would depend upon the extent of the adulteration. . . . All Mississippi motorists pay plenty for their gasoline. Some pay a lot more than they think. CAL LEWIS...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, May 10, 1937 | 5/10/1937 | See Source »

Crossing between races that are physical far apart involves serious social results. Since one race is dominant, society forbids legal unions. Thus, the offspring, besides being unique in look, are socially stigmatized; at best they must live with the inferior group. In America mulattoes have increased rapidly, so that now only one-fourth of the Negro population is full-blooded. To discourage marriages between Negroes and Whites a pseudo-scientific propaganda has appeared which underlines the supposed bad effects of crossing. But scientists doubt if mulattoes are inferior; among Indians they have found that mixed bloods show less sterility...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: THE VAGABOND | 4/30/1937 | See Source »

...Race" conscious people make wild guesses as to the mentality of races. A group having an inferior culture, from out point of view, does not necessarily belong to an inferior race. Nationality and race cannot bear confusion. Contrary to the general opinion, or prejudice, are records of powerful Negro kingdoms in East and West Africa. For centuries Negroes have been skilled iron-workers; in 1500 they did bronze casting to perfection. Much of India's civilization is owed to Negroes. Seventy years of emancipation for the American Negro are no fair test of his capacity. See how Europeans estimated...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: THE VAGABOND | 4/30/1937 | See Source »

...agitated a year so full of exciting events. People talked about the Titanic and the Bull Moose and the Balkan War if they were not reading the latest books of O. Henry, Edith Wharton, and Henry Adams. Just out of the nickleodeon era, the movies in America were far inferior to European productions, and attracted only a million persons a day. In 1912, however, the entertainment became an art under the patronage of the great Bernhardt, an event perhaps more portentious than others with greater space in the newspapers...

Author: By M. O. P., | Title: The Crimson Moviegoer | 4/14/1937 | See Source »

Divorced. Hiram Bingham, 61, one-time (1924-33) Senator from Connecticut; by Mrs. Alfreda Mitchell Bingham, whom he married in 1900; in Miami, Fla. Grounds: mental cruelty. "He did not greet me the same way he did the two dogs. He took the attitude that I had a very inferior mind, a very inferior brain, and wanted me to understand he felt that way," complained Mrs. Bingham in testimony corroborated by Woodbridge and Jonathan Brewster Bingham, oldest and youngest of their seven sons...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones, Apr. 5, 1937 | 4/5/1937 | See Source »

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