Word: raced
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...join in this holy crusade. . . . C.I.O. is not going to invade the South. The South is coming to us. . . . The day has gone by when the working men and women of the South can be considered Class B citizens. . . . We will organize . . . the toiling masses . . . into unions regardless of race, creed, color or national origin...
...took a little while to get the call relayed to Mrs. Clement. She had to get the news of the honor that had come to her, and to her race, at the telephone office. There is only one telephone in the Negro section of Springfield...
...Most race track barns are tinder dry. The one housing Elizabeth Arden Graham's horses at Arlington Park, near Chicago, was no exception. Flames, from a fire caused by an unwatched electric heater, licked over the loose straw bedding and lapped at wooden partitions. A Negro groom threw a single bucket of water, saw that it was futile and made a beeline to save the horses...
...greatest ovation in my 50 years of concert going," said Mrs. William Randolph Hearst Sr. Said Jeritza: "A rabbit could have scared me away. I went to the post like a race horse which wears blinders. My heart was going boom, boom, boom...
...only interhouse crew race rowed so far this spring, Kirkland beat Winthrop by two and a half lengths. The Puritans caught a crab at the starting flag and could not make up the ground lost. Kirkland defeated Leverett 7 to 0 Thursday in the spring's first tennis match...