Word: racially
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Comptroller General Lindsay Warren, of North Carolina, plunged the Administration deep into hot water last week. Southwestern Bell Telephone Co. in Kansas City, Mo. refused to accept a Federal contract if the regular clause forbidding racial or religious discrimination remained. In Comptroller General Warren's ruling he wrote that Franklin Roosevelt's order against such discrimination was not an order, that all Government contracting agencies can do is get the consent of contractors to abide by it. This ruling made the simmering fair-employment problem boil over and caused widespread speculation as to whether Franklin' Roosevelt...
...Othello, The Merchant of Venice, Hamlet, at Pasadena's famed Playhouse, a Shakespeare stronghold that has produced all 37 of the Bard's plays. Carradine's productions were thoughtful rather than exciting, shunned novelty and sensationalism: as Shylock, for example, Carradine refused to point up the racial issue. But, despite gas rationing, Carradine's three-week run broke all Playhouse records for Shakespeare, turned away 250 people a week...
...Robeson graduated from the Columbia Law School, was offered a job in an excellent law office, gave it up because of possible racial complications. Said Robeson: "I could never be a Supreme Court judge; on the stage there was only the sky to hold me back." The stage quickly pitched him to fame in O'Neill's All God's Chillun Got Wings and The Emperor Jones. A scene in The Emperor Jones called for whistling and, because he could not whistle, Robeson sang. Having stirred the audience with his deep, rich voice, Robeson-who had never...
...quelled until the fall of 1937. By that time Generalissimo Chiang Kai-shek's far distant Central Government was at war with Japan and all its energy was absorbed. For Sheng Shih-tsai, the problem was simple. He represented the minority race in a vast region surcharged with racial and religious tension; his immense fear of Japanese imperialism grew as Japan drove farther and farther into the heart of Asia. Without help, he could not maintain himself. Thus, from 1934 to 1942. he leaned ever more heavily on the U.S.S.R...
...into the Chinese pattern or inundated and absorbed by tidal waves of Chinese immigration? Or will China try to preserve the minority languages, schools and courts and let the natives participate in their own Government ? Upon her record in Turkestan, China's claim for trusteeship for other retarded racial groups in Asia may stand or fall...