Word: l
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...honestly against the social intermingling of Negroes and whites but I hold nothing personal against the Negroes as a race. They should be proud of their God-given heritage just as l am proud of mine. I believe Negroes should have the right [to indiscriminate use of the ballot], and in Mississippi too-when their main purpose is not to put me out of office and when they won't try to besmirch the reputation of my state...
Secretary of the Navy, New Hampshire's John L. Sullivan, well-traveled Under Secretary of the Navy, onetime Assistant Secretary of the Treasury, a faithful Democrat and good friend of National Chairman Bob Hannegan...
...Clue. In Buenos Aires, Radical Deputy Raúl Uranga thought he knew who had given Paraguay's dictator the hypo. He and his fellow opposition deputies had proof, said Uranga, that Perón had helped Morinigo. He wondered out loud if there was a connection between the arms for Morinigo and a new appropriation earmarked for "other expenses." Uranga set off an uproar in the Chamber of Deputies, but no Peronista answered...
Between New York and Moscow, words like "slave" and "phony" flew back & forth. The New York Times's pugnacious managing editor and Sunday columnist, Edwin L. (for Leland) James, and the Communist Pravda's choleric co-editor, David losifovich Zaslavsky, were locked in battle...
...Zaslavsky's desk, near Lenin's plaster head, is a ceramic crocodile, the animal that weeps fake tears. Last week Zaslavsky finally finished his sermon to Edwin L. James and the U.S. press...