Word: joes
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...connection with articles concerning Colored children namely, "pickaninnies." This word is very objectionable to us as a Race and has been quite embarrassing to me inasmuch as many of our customers and friends have the mistaken idea that I either wrote or dictated the statement as usual he [Joe Louis] was surrounded by admiring pickaninnies and etc. For the benefit of those who may have that idea, will you please print the correction that I do not write for TIME, and that while TIME'S reporter was present some of our local teachers were escorting a group of Colored...
...just short of a clear majority against four other candidates. A run-off election will be held June 14. Campaigning for a seat in the House, aging J. Thomas ("Tom-Tom") Heflin, who lost a Senate race to Lister Hill last winter, lost again, this time to the incumbent Joe Starnes of Guntersville...
Authors Bromley & Britten introduce their book with a promising question: "Joe and Jane petting on the back seat of an automobile are unimportant. Five million boys and girls petting on public highways have national significance." Their banal conclusion: "Today's young people are groping for a philosophy of living that will serve them in a changing world. They lack the measuring-rod of experience, but as a generation they are forthright, honest and courageous." Readers will want better evidence than is provided in Youth and Sex that these adjectives are appropriate for either the generation or Authors Bromley & Britten...
...money down fast on last fortnight's Wood Memorial winner, Fighting Fox, full brother of Gallant Fox. 1930 Derby winner. Kentucky hard boots liked Bull Lea, who had broken two track records in his two races at local Keeneland this spring. Hollywood visitors (like Joan Bennett, Jack Pearl, Joe E. Brown) made sentimental bets on Myron Selznick's Can't Wait. Long-shot players took a chance on Elooto, named after Owner William O'Toole, and hoped he would not run in reverse like his name. Only a sprinkling backed Lawrin, the hillbilly colt, even though...
Although the outfield lacks the batting punch that Mitchell so needs, Joe Soltz in left, Bob Gannett in center, and Rud Hoye in right will be assigned to the outer garden, with a possibility of either Dick Hall or Frank Weiner replacing Gannett in case the opposition uses a left handed pitcher...