Word: raced
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Christian Nationalist: for President, Gerald L. K. Smith, 50, rabble-rousing, race-baiting ex-preacher from Louisiana; for Vice President, Harry Romer, 50, a funeral director of St. Henry, Ohio. Smith and Romer were running mates in 1944 on the America First ticket. They advocate withdrawal of the U.S. from U.N., establishment of friendly relations with Franco Spain, deportation of all Negroes and Zionist Jews...
...reform governor who despised ward politics, he exasperated the politicians, who dubbed him "Charles the Baptist." Nevertheless, he was reelected. Taft appointed him to the Supreme Court (where he stayed until his unsuccessful race for the presidency); Harding made him his Secretary of State...
Rags to Riches. In the National League, the race was just as tight, the scrambling just as fierce. Back in July, the first-place Boston Braves had a comfortable six-game margin. The embarrassed Brooklyn Dodgers, last year's champions, grumbled in last place. Fourteen days later the Dodgers, already on the way back, switched from loud Manager Leo Durocher to patient Burt Shotton, and kept going. Last week, in an Ebbets Field doubleheader that had some of the tenseness and all the excitement of a World Series, the rags-to-riches Bums beat the Braves in the opener...
...duty towards your neighbor?" The answer: "To do my best to prevent him from doing unto me what I should like to do unto him . . ." And "What is the Nature of Woman?" "Woman is the vessel of the Unholy Spirit, the source of all deformity . . . the enemy of the race...
Barred from the consulate, the press had a troubled half hour making sure that it was really the schoolmarm who had jumped. The conservative Sun, no slouch at handling a fast-breaking story, won the race to tell the news. It hit the street with an eight-column headline at 5:06 without at first identifying the woman...