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Bloody Plains. Germany contains two major theatres of war although for more than a hundred years no big war has been fought on German soil. In 1914 this was due to German possession of Alsace and Lorraine, which kept the French from pouring through the Lorraine Gateway and the Belfort gap. In 1870, when the French owned the border provinces, the stupidity of Marshal Bazaine, who shut himself up in the fortress of Metz and refused to stir, deprived France of the opportunity to push into the South German Basin...
Negroes are not permitted to play major-league baseball, are not tolerated in bigtime tournaments of the U. S. Golf Association or the U. S. Lawn Tennis Association.† They have their own American League and National League, their own All-Star baseball game. They have their own national golf association, which puts on championship matches. But at no sport are they more firmly organized than at tennis. For 23 years U. S. Negroes have banded together in the American Tennis Association, which not only serves as the governing body of 150 Negro clubs and 25,000 players but also...
...this summer. Through the efforts of the A. T. A. directors, who are eager to show the snooty U. S. L. T. A. that Negroes can be developed into high-grade tennists, the colored race-especially its intelligentsia-has become extraordinarily tennis-conscious. In Negro colleges tennis is a major sport, exceeded in popularity only by football (50% of the students play tennis). Wealthy Negroes like Chicago's "Mother" Seames, a 70-year-old, 200-lb. tennis enthusiast, have built public courts for colored players. A. T. A. bigwigs have sent picked teams on barnstorming exhibition tours...
Firestone, which shoes the wheels of most top-flight U. S. racing cars, publishes its half-year report at the end of April. Last spring it had encouraging news for its stockholders in spite of the fact that one of its major customers, Motorman Henry Ford, is rapidly expanding his own tire production in the River Rouge plant. For fiscal 1938's first half (October-April) Firestone turned a net income of $2,429,738. This year's six-month...
...next few years divided his time between New Haven and Charleston, S. C. When Sumter was fired on he escaped from Charleston on the last ship going north, recruited a Connecticut company, captained it, served under Weitzel and Banks in Louisiana, under Sheridan in Virginia, was a major when the war ended. He was in charge of the Freedmen's Bureau at Greenville, S. C., when Miss Ravenel's Conversion was published. His service ended in 1868 and he spent the rest of his life in New Haven turning out bitter novels satirizing the Gilded...