Word: projective
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Designed to start the project off well, tomorrow's mass meeting will feature speeches by the Reverend Mr. Francis B. Sayre, Jr. of Christ Church and John T. Dunlop, faculty instructor in Economics. A motion picture, "America's Call to Arms", and a news reel of Pearl Harbor will be shown, while Donald Duck will make his plea for generosity through Walt Disney's latest cartoon "The New Spirit...
...many Americans, on the one hand paying lip service to the anti-fascist cause are, on the other, committing crimes worthy only of a sadistic Japanese soldier. Negro defense workers and their families, after several postponements and one refusal, were finally given permission to move into a government housing project built originally for them. On the day of the moving, the Negroes planned to celebrate. But there was no celebration. It was stolen from them along with their rights as American citizens. Standing four square to prevent them from taking over the project were over six hundred angry, hostile whites...
...long queue of determined-looking women clumped up & down before a Detroit Federal housing project. Their placard read: "We want White Neighbors." Some 500 of their men gathered purposefully on the east side of Ryan Rd., the border line between white & black neighborhoods...
...housing project had been christened Sojourner Truth Homes.* Built in the white section, the project was intended for Negroes. Protests grew so violent that officials changed their minds, said the 200 units would be for whites; then they changed their minds again, told Negroes to move in. Moving day came last week...
...brake: although there would be no deduction from current wages, 75% of all wage increases would go into the fund, to be paid when the certificates are cashed after the war. Mr. Ferguson disclaimed knowledge of J. M. Keynes's wage-deferment plan in England, to which his project bore a striking resemblance...