Word: raced
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...York figures were one example of how decisive the serviceman's vote might be in a close race. Albany received some 590,000 serviceman ballot applications. (In 1940, Franklin Roosevelt's plurality in New York was 224,440; Tom Dewey lost his 1938 try at the governorship by less than...
Republicans turned to Thomas E. Dewey as the man likeliest to beat Term IV. Last April, the results of the Wisconsin primaries reached Willkie in an Omaha hotel room; next night he withdrew from the race...
Either choice would bring its troubles. The Army Air Forces, which has only a few Negro troops, operates 18 centers successfully without any segregation. But the much higher proportion of Negroes among ground troops makes the Ground Forces' problem another kind of exercise in race relations. So Ground Forces officers considered all-Negro rest hotels in first-class resorts, gloomily reflected that, if that solution were selected, they would hear loud squawks from the managements of any hotels they chose. And again the Negro press would cry "Jim Crow...
...matron called her bank to explain that she could not get down that day and to ask if she could still get her money next day.) Some felt they need not hang on to their bonds any longer. One woman cashed in $1,000 worth "to bet on a race horse"; another got $75 to do her Christmas shopping "before the rest of the women pick over everything." A middle-aged couple cashed in $225 worth of bonds "to have a good time...
Under the warm June sunlight the rich Pennsylvania farmlands unrolled in a vision of wealth that staggered the triumphant, barefoot Army of Northern Virginia. The invasion was a picnic. It was a combination of all the entertainments of rustic America-a horse race, a chicken fry (with requisitioned chickens), a parade-and the prizes were everything that the nation could offer...