Word: racially
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Nearly five years have passed since the close of the most devastating of wars. The earth is still reeling like a drunken man. The inhabitants thereof are bereft of reason by the poison gas of racial antagonisms in a world that was nearly destroyed by hate, and is seeking to save itself by hate, and Israel is the greatest sufferer in these distracted days...
...feature of the convention was a speech by Supreme Knight James A. Flaherty, in which he challenged the Ku Klux Klan and other K. of C. detractors. He declared that the K. of C. would combat all combinations which seek to inject religious or racial bias into governmental or social life. He then sketched the vast educational work of his order: hospital work for 30,000 disabled soldiers; national correspondence school for members of the order, furnishing tuition at cost; and the Italian Welfare program, carried on under the auspices of the Vatican...
During the numerous conversations which preceded the present agreement, Ismet Pasha proved more than ordinarily recalcitrant over the question of minorities. He ironically suggested that Turkey should be the protector of racial minorities in the U. S. Said the wily Ismet: "The Turkish newspapers have the most ferocious accounts of lynchings of Negroes in the United States almost every week. You burn them at the stake. We stopped burning people two or three hundred years...
These mistakes are given as: the maintenance of the second-best Army in Europe on a bankrupt financial system, overexpansion to such an extent that only 15 out of her 27 million inhabitants are Poles, overcentralization of Government, harsh treatment of racial minorities-especially the Jews...
...band rehearsal of the first scene is not far behind it. The present company lacks comedians of the first rank. One man presents an imitation of Bert Williams, consciously or not, that does not come up to the Bert Williams standard. But the pugnacious, rambunctious wit that is racial and authentic is excellent. "Liza" has little plot., more than "Shuffie Along" had at that, but it has just the correct amount. The plot never gets in the way of specialties or the dancers, but it does provide a loose unity to the scenes and officers comic possibilities...