Word: meannesses
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Mississippi tried a new racial tactic. In last week's Democratic primaries, prospective voters could be required, under a state law passed last March, to swear their faith in "party principles." In Mississippi, Democratic party principles not only mean white supremacy, but include opposition to federal antilynching, anti-poll-tax and fair employment practices laws. The new law was frankly designed to keep Negroes from voting...
...Williamsburg, Va., the A.P.'s Kent Cooper told a newsmen's banquet that it was not that simple: government control of the press would obviously mean political control. The U.S. press would stay free, he said, provided it kept nothing from the people, and kept "defending the right of all to express their views through the printed word...
...high point came at the Quai d'Orsay when Evita watched stout, perspiring Argentine Ambassador Julio Victorica Roca sign a French-Argentine commercial treaty granting France a loan of 600,000,000 pesos ($150,750,000). It would mean a lot more wheat. It would mean, too, more beef. One French commentator quipped unkindly: "Madame Peron will be made palatable to the French workers and peasants by being dressed as a piece of Argentine frozen beef...
...action in these two dioceses is a dishonor to the Episcopal Church and it arouses grave fears as to the effects of our recently adopted canon on marriage. Does this mean that through the wrong interpretation of the canon by some diocesan chancellors and the weakness of some bishops we are now to have a number of ecclesiastical and moral Renos, and the consequent abolition of any Christian standard of marriage, in the church...
...naturally, said that it would be small. Said National Steel's Weir, "The increased cost for a refrigerator won't be more than a couple of dollars." The American Iron and Steel Institute estimated that a price rise of $6 to $7 a ton in steel would mean a direct increase of $10.50 to $12.25 in the cost of producing the average automobile. At week's end, automakers and other hard-goods manufacturers were still mum on any price rises. But in most of these lines, competition alone was not great enough to force them to hold...