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...chaste, cream-paneled Cabinet Room at No. 10 Downing St. last week His Majesty's Government met jovially to plan what some of them called their "nigger election...
...Captains Courageous" by Kipling emerges in a new light. It is no longer a healthy adventure story. The South End Parent-Teachers Association of Boston has denounced it as breeding racial hatred because a negro cook is referred to as a "nigger", and the Association has requested Patrick C. Campbell, Superintendent of schools, to ban it from the shelves of all schools. Boston youth may be deprived of the privilege of reading a book which their fathers enjoyed and thought of as a standard of manhood...
...would give Ethiopia last week except in words (see p. 18). The blatant announcement last fortnight that Haile Selassie had conceded subsoil rights in half his empire to British Promoter Francis Rickett and his mysterious backers (TIME, Sept. 9) was universally called by statesmen and financiers last week a "nigger trick." Anything but smart was this dusky African potentate's pathetic belief that President Roosevelt would defend Ethiopia against Italy as a result of the midnight signing of the Rickett concession. Equally footless was his loss of temper in accusing Secretary Hull of "gross misjudgment." This petulant error Charg?...
...Nigger Hell." Among the first settlers on Manhattan Island were eleven blacks, who arrived with the Dutch in 1626. The first New York City race riot occurred under the English in 1712, when a wild rumor that slaves were plotting to massacre the whites condemned 21 Negroes to death. In 1741 a similar tale circulated by a white servant girl caused the colonists to burn 14 Negroes "alive with a slow fire until dead and consumed to ashes," hang 18 more. Refusing to be impressed into the war to make Negroes free, shanty Irishmen in 1863 staged the historic "Draft...
...brought thousands of unskilled workers North. In New York they spilled out of San Juan Hill into the Italian-Spanish colony of Harlem. By 1920 New York's Negro population had jumped to 250,000. The recession of the boom stranded the blackamoors, changed New York's "Nigger Heaven" into a "Nigger Hell...