Word: raced
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...issue of TIME, April 18 under "Business in Bronzeville," in which my picture occurred, there occurred the use of a phrase that TIME so often uses in connection with articles concerning Colored children namely, "pickaninnies." This word is very objectionable to us as a Race and has been quite embarrassing to me inasmuch as many of our customers and friends have the mistaken idea that I either wrote or dictated the statement as usual he [Joe Louis] was surrounded by admiring pickaninnies and etc. For the benefit of those who may have that idea, will you please print the correction...
...Boston Navy Yard was forced to default a rowing race against the U. S. Coast Guard in Boston Harbor. Reason: The Navy had no rowboat...
...water-hole?" When the votes were tallied, Mr. Hitchcock came in a bad third, behind a Congressman named Fred Hildebrandt, leaving Rooseveltian Mr. Berry with nothing between himself and the Senate but the November elections. His Republican opponent will be Chandler Gurney-who lost a close Senate race in 1936, campaigning over a radio station which he operates himself...
...remained on the branch when Major Frank Dixon fell just short of a clear majority against four other candidates. A run-off election will be held June 14. Campaigning for a seat in the House, aging J. Thomas ("Tom-Tom") Heflin, who lost a Senate race to Lister Hill last winter, lost again, this time to the incumbent Joe Starnes of Guntersville...
Preakness Stakes (Sat. 5:45 p. m. NBC-Red). Race for crack three-year- olds described by Clem McCarthy...