Word: question
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...friends of mine. The couple happens to be Negro; I am not. In checking into the various names on the list, I would approach a landlord or superintendent inquiring as to whether or not they still had vacancies, to which the answer was often affirmative. My next question was whether or not these people would rent to Negroes, and more often than not the answer was negative...
...could be done unless the Negroes themselves objected. My main concern is, if this be the case, and a Negro couple were to track down the apartments themselves, a landlord would only have to see them to say that he was sorry but he was filled up, and the question of whether or not he discriminated would be indeterminate...
...disliked controversy; thus a story on reactions or Arkansan students to the large primary victory of Orval Faubus was banned by the School on the grounds that it might to "too controversial." The administration became excited when a speech was reported in which only one side of a disputed question was aired; this, they felt, allied the Summer School with that one side. In the midst of the tense week of the Middle East crisis the Summer News bore the lead headline: "Education, Security Conferences mark Week...
...year-old Senator lauded Americans of Italian descent, and managed to point out that he is an honorary citizen of Rome and Trieste. These remarks were made in reply to a question concerning the role of the so-called "Mafia" in national crime...
UNITED NATIONS, N.Y.--The United States succeeded Tuesday in again getting the United Nations to sidetrack the question of Red China's membership. But the margin of victory was the lowest on record...