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There was the instructive memory of the time Percy Sr. ran against Demagogue James K. Vardaman for the U. S. Senate. Vardaman, who looked "like a top-notch medicine man," stood for the poor white against the "nigger." "He was not a moral idiot of genius like Huey Long; he was merely an exhibitionist playing with fire." When Percy Sr. won, they tried to pin a bribery charge on him. It was quickly disproved, but the man who made the charge went on shouting the lie from every platform in Mississippi. He "was a pert little monster, glib and shameless...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Remembrance of Things Past | 3/24/1941 | See Source »

...Isolationist Senator Arthur Vandenberg of Michigan, anti-New Deal Congressman Charles Halleck of Indiana, and Harold Stassen, "the Governor of the 'German' State of the Union-Minnesota." Elwood. Ind.. Willkie's birthplace, the statement went on, barred Negroes as residents, put up signs warning: "Nigger, Don't Let the Sun Go Down on You". The document quoted Harlan Miller, columnist on the Boston Traveler, as saying that Willkie's favorite crack under emotional stress was: "You can't do this to me-I am a white...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: Smear | 10/21/1940 | See Source »

...began turning out barges, towboats, all manner of river craft. Prime mover of this sideline was big, nervous Robert Ingersoll Ingalls Jr., only son of Ingalls Iron Works' shrewd, crusty, hard-working president, who likes to say that he founded his business in 1910 "with a nigger, a mule and a wooden crane. ..." Pleased with his new sidelines, Father Ingalls two years ago agreed to build the big new yard at Pascagoula for the express purpose of getting part of the $1,000,000,000 Maritime Commission program...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: SHIPBUILDING: Rivetless Ship | 6/17/1940 | See Source »

...play April Fool, Germany feeds its own people skits like a recent one in which a recruiting captain in Nigeria complained to the Resident Commissioner about the difficulties of rounding up blackamoors for the Army. Says the R. C. : "I am doing my best. . . . Do you see that lanky nigger? He tried to get away. He is just about to be hanged." The captain: "It is interesting to watch the effect on the eyes, don't you think? See how they roll. The foam at the mouth is rather amusing, too." The scene changes and a "Lord Fisher" says...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Radio: Fourth Front | 4/22/1940 | See Source »

...sending you a recent photo of myself, not that its publication will again exhaust your sales in Memphis; but merely to convince you that I am not so much like a "nigger prize fighter" as your burlesque made me appear...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Mar. 18, 1940 | 3/18/1940 | See Source »

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