Word: raced
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Headlines such as NEGRO HOUSEMAN ARRESTED AS MRS. LOGAN'S MURDERER (which was spread across Page One of the New York Sun recently) pose a question which has long disturbed thoughtful newsmen. The question: when should a criminal's race be mentioned in print? Negroes point out that no paper even in the Negro press ever prints a headline like WHITE KILLER HELD...
...This consideration has led us to adhere to the rule that the race of a person suspected or accused of crimes shall not be published unless there is a legitimate purpose to be served thereby...
...this we mean that it is correct to refer to race when the accused is still at large and race seems one mark of identification. It is also correct when, as in the case of race riots or racial antagonisms, it becomes essential to the understanding of the news...
Everyone agreed that it was nice to be back at Saratoga, N.Y., the nation's most picturesque race track. Everything looked just as it did before the war, except where the venerable United States Hotel used to stand. There was a parking lot there...
...Goshen, N.Y., long the mecca of harness horsemen, the Hambletonian had its 21st renewal. Winner: a bay colt named Chestertown, bought the week before the race by Walter E. Smith, a rags-to-riches West Coast industrialist turned harness-racing promoter. Driver: grizzled, 72-year-old Tom Berry, who had broken two ribs and his wrist in a spill two days earlier...