Word: raced
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...intriguing minor facts of the GOPresidential race last week was that Lieut. Commander Harold Stassen actually had more convention delegates officially pledged to him (33) than had Governor Tom Dewey (29). This fact will be significant only if Dewey fails to get the nomination on an early ballot. For Tom Dewey last week had another 377 delegates an nounced as "committed" to him. Even without an additional 403 claimed as leaning in his favor, his total was thus only 124 short of the 530 required for nomination...
People are always making positive statements to children about race. Why not tell them the facts as far as science has discovered them? I start right in telling them that what looks like inferiority turns out to be mere difference. Biologically there is no superiority or inferiority; the largest brain known to science is the brain of an idiot. Man is the only animal that blushes and the only one that needs to, for we [alone] persecute each other for differences...
This statement is by a powerhouse of a woman teacher who is about to take anthropology into the high school. The powerhouse is Ethel Josephine Alpenfels, who has found that adults as well as high-school students will eat up scientific information about race and culture when presented by a breezy blonde with the energy of a Brunhild and a far better disposition. The scene of her pioneering will be Chicago...
Within a few days after Wendell Willkie's withdrawal from the Republican Presidential race, interviewers from the research firm of Elmo Roper began asking questions in all sections of the U.S. for the regular FORTUNE Survey of Public Opinion. The questioning ended April 15. TIME herewith continues its new practice of reporting the most newsworthy results of this survey immediately upon their tabulation...
...suggestion for the weekend. If not, here's another. A special leaves at 1225 tomorrow for Providence, R. I., where "they're off" at Narragansett at 1430. Naturally officers don't gamble, but servicemen are admitted free, and watching others get rich on Reyes in the fourth race will be a pleasant pastime...