Word: racial
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Most of the gang members range in age from 9 to 16. Italian boys form their own gangs. Irish, German, Swedish boys run together indiscriminately. Syrians keep to themselves. Porto Ricans will not associate with Negroes, and Brazilians will not associate with Porto Ricans. Racial friction is an outgrowth of ancestral antipathies, since most of the young men's fathers, who are universally engaged in the stevedoring business, do not care to mingle with foreigners...
Senator Reed, having secured several favorable rulings from Judge Fred Raymond barring the racial issue from the suit, launched the defense with his most inflammatory and satiric senatorial style. Said he: "I think His Honor will tell you that the Hebrew race is not here bringing this suit, and that Mr. Sapiro has no right to come here and recover damages for the Hebrew race, and put the money in his own pocket as damage done to himself. This is not che case of former Gov. Lowden, or Mr. Lasker, or Mr. Baruch, or Mr. Lazinsky, or anybody else. This...
...Swabia, the peace of whose hairy bosom depends only upon war, wine and women. As finance minister, Suss rises to a cruel, dizzy pinnacle, from which he plunges voluntarily when his duties as procurer for the ducal bed involve his own daughter. He avenges her suicide and atones, with racial intensity, on the execution platform.... The treatment of prodigious figures in a pageantric time is in the grand, kaleidoscopic manner of Dumas, overcast with the mysticism of Jewry. Imported after a wide success in Europe, the book has not been equaled this season as a foursquare, full-blooded, Jehovian chronicle...
...islands is found in the attitude of the Dutch toward the halfbreed," said Putnam. "Contrary to the English practice the Dutch maintain that the slightest drop of white blood makes a white man at least, before the law. As a result the Dutch are confronted with less racial friction than the British colonies...
...provinces and a desire to unite with men of their own blood and language in the Serbian kingdom. The justification put forward by the champions of the Jugoslavs is the same as that put forward by the friends of Italian unification, namely, that they had a right to desire racial unity and political independence, and had also a right to fight...