Word: raced
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Here's hoping that all your future articles on the race question will be written by the man who wrote "Morale." I am sure he will realize that the truth lies somewhere between the "red-eyed denunciation" of the Negro press and the ranting of Bilbo; that the deep-seated social forces involved cannot be quelled overnight; that the condition of the Negro in the South, though unhappy, is much improved, and steadily though slowly improving; that this improvement can best be accelerated by cooperation with the best elements among the Southern whites instead of by incrimination of Southern...
Consequently, four days before the convention opened the race seemed wide-open, and the one-day booms blossomed in methodical order: for Barkley, Douglas, Byrnes and Speaker Sam Ray burn. The Byrnes boom got farthest first and then fell flattest. The first of many intimate and important dinners in Chicago ended Byrnes's candidacy...
...future belongs to those who go down the line unswervingly for the liberal principles of both political democracy and economic democracy regardless of race, color or religion. In a political, educational and economic sense, there must be no inferior races. The poll tax must go. Equal educational opportunities must come. The future must bring equal wages for equal work regardless of sex or race. . . . The Democratic Party cannot long survive as a conservative party. . . . Democrats who try to play the Republican game inside the Democratic Party always find that it just can't work on a national scale...
...track world's favorite fable almost came true last week. Arne Andersson ran within a moment's breath of the "impossible" four-minute mile. In a race with Gunder Hagg at Malmo, Sweden, the 27-year-old grammar-school teacher accomplished the distance in 4:01.6, clipping a full second off his own world's record, set just a year ago. Although he was beaten by some six feet, 25-year-old Hagg also shattered the old mark with a time...
Since June 1942, when the Marine Corps broke with 167-year tradition, and began recruiting Negroes, the marines, white and black, have carried on with none of the public race troubles that beset the vastly larger U.S. Army (TIME, July 10). Said one white Marine officer of this phenomenon: "We take only the cream of the crop, and they are all so damn proud to be marines...