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...issue with those who said poor whites should be given the same help as blacks. "There's not a white man in this country who can say he never benefited from being white," Marshall said. He could be bitingly acerbic, falling into slave dialect and calling the other Justices "Massa." In 1980, when the University of Maryland Law School dedicated its new library to him, Marshall wouldn't attend the ceremony. The school was just "trying to salve its conscience for excluding the Negroes," he said. As the court grew colder to civil rights, he did little to hide...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Thurgood Marshall: The Brain Of The Civil Rights Movement | 6/14/1999 | See Source »

...Larry Roller, president of Save Our State Song, commenting on Virginia's anthem about a freed slave who longs to be reunited with his "massa and missis...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: NEWSPEAK | 2/18/1997 | See Source »

Thirty-five of the 120 biotech companies that have sprouted up in Massa-chusetts over the past decade are based in Cambridge, making the city an important center for the industry and the industry a significant economic group in the city...

Author: By June Shih, | Title: City Biotech Firms Ignore Recession | 5/15/1991 | See Source »

...Sperry computers do not run the same programs and thus cannot be linked together. Some customers are already nervous: a group of 17 New England companies that use Sperry computers wrote Blumenthal last week to ask if Burroughs would discontinue their machines. In a telephone call to Elaine Massa, technical-services manager for Connecticut Natural Gas, Blumenthal assured the group that he has no intention of dropping Sperry products...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Price Was Finally Right | 6/9/1986 | See Source »

Everyone is condemning Louis Farrakhan for his remarks about Reporter Milton Coleman. Blacks are fed up with Uncle Toms who run back to Ole Massa repeating what is said among blacks. When the Knights of Columbus or B'nai B'rith have a meeting, their members do not tattle to blacks...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters: May 28, 1984 | 5/28/1984 | See Source »

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