Word: racially
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...strike was over. The production hours that had been lost were lost forever. And though Philadelphia had providentially survived its first major crisis in racial relations without the loss of a single life, dangerous seeds had been planted...
...Denounced Congressman Ham Fish for antiSemitism. Fish, campaigning for reelection in New York's agth District, had said that Jews favor the New Deal. Said Dewey: "Anyone who injects a racial or religious issue into a political campaign is guilty of a disgraceful, un-American act." Fish, also denounced in newspaper ads signed by such intellectual constituents as Playwright Maxwell Anderson, threatened a $250,000 libel suit against Anderson. Wendell Willkie offered to defend Anderson free...
...first forum-sponsored by the AYD will be held tonight at 295 Huntington Avenue, room 310, and will begin at 8 o'clock. The subject of the forum, conduced by Anne Reed, Executive secretary of the Massachusetts Citizens Committee for Racial Unity, will be "Problems of Building Real Unity in Massachusetts...
...first group soon got a real test. Formed up as the 100th Infantry Battalion, they were sent to North Africa, attached to the 34th Division. To keep them a racial unit the War Department sent along 500 reserve Nisei to augment the 100th's normal battalion strength of 800. The reserves were soon needed...
...Philistine outburst. Intelligent Americans will blush to think that this is the reception we accord distinguished European artists, and that the grossness of Mr. Moses is the measure of our understanding of city planning." Cried one Bernard Mazel: "[Moses' article] sounded like one of Nazi Germany's racial discussions of Kultur filled with references to 'refugee,' 'foreigners,' . . . only omitting the phrase, 'Why don't they go back where they came from...