Word: mongrelism
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...first time and upheld it. Said Justice Archibald C. Buchanan: "We are unable to read in the 14th Amendment . . . any words or intendment which prohibit the state from enacting legislation to preserve the racial integrity of its citizens . . . so that it shall not have a mongrel breed of citizens. We find there is no requirement that the state shall not legislate to prevent the obliteration of racial pride, but must permit the corruption of blood, even though it weaken or destroy the quality of its citizenship. Both sacred and secular history teach that nations have better advanced in human progress...
There were various reasons for this. The trials were conducted "by officials sick with the weariness left by a great war." The code that governed them was a mongrel code, "a compromise between the English and American procedures." It proved to be diametrically opposed to democratic German law because it bound the accused men, on pain of perjury, to speak the truth on oath, whereas German law would have given them .the right to lie to the full in their own defense. To the prisoners and their many supporters in Germany, Nuremberg was a put-up piece of legal chicanery...
Despite its dating back to 1726, Wadsworth House has long since blended into the general chaos of Harvard architecture, and there are probably not ten students in every hundred who could direct a tourist to it. Surrounded by Lehman, Grays, and Boylston, it is the yellow mongrel--part wood, part brick--wagged by the long tail of Wigglesworth...
...story . . . was read with interest, despite your obvious bias in favor of the Negro race ... We are far truer friends to the Negro than the Yankee zealots who seek to cram down our throats a principle we will never accept . . . The end of segregation can only result in a mongrel race, as time goes by. Thank God, the blood strain of the South is the purest in the world...
...Stone ran this ad in the Daily Enterprise: "Having satisfactorily severed my marriage bond after 19 years, I wish to express . . . gratitude to John E. Rice for counseling, Arthur Bastien and Fred Williams for legal service, the Stone family for a friendly attitude . . . P. S. I have three beagle mongrel pups free for anyone...