Word: racing
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...series of films designed to show the primary racial divisions of the human species and the criteria of race, by "close-ups" and animated, cartoons expressed simply enough so that the school children will be able to grasp the general idea. The purpose of this series is to give the school children a clear idea not only of the various racial types of man, but also of their distribution and possible migrations in the past. It is designed also to destroy the archaic racial classification on the basis of color still extant in most school geography books...
...white man, as first U. S. Minister to Abyssinia (Ethiopia), was reported last month contemporaneously with a meeting in Washington of the Republican National Committee, upon which sits many a Negro. Last week the Pittsburgh Courier (outstanding U. S. Negro weekly) inveighed against "the eminent politicians of the Negro race" and commented sharply on Mr. Southard's appointment...
Moreover, Prince Ras Taffari is of a turn of mind no less inquiring than Rasselas.† He would, guessed travelers, desire as envoy from any other state, a representative of that state's dominant race. Ras Taffari would want to learn about China from a Chinaman, not a white man; about India from a Hindu, not an Anglo-Saxon; about the U. S. from a Caucasian, not a Negro...
Five days afterward came a sudden thaw. From ice into water turned many a stream-including the Serpentine, that storied streamlet of Hyde Park, London, in which swam Peter Pan. Thus, it became possible to hold last week, the famous 110-yard Serpentine Swimming Race which is sponsored each year by Sir James Matthew Barrie. Last week he stood at one end of the Serpentine under an old, sopping umbrella and awarded to the winner of the race, one H. J. Edwards, the handsome, annually donated Peter...
...hard to see why it is the Jew is singled out for such attention. Individually, by their artistic ability and business acumen the Jews play an important part in American life. But, on the other hand, in their race clannishness, they choose to constitute a distinct body. And as such they are a perfectly legitimate subject for discussion. It is customary to assail Babbitry for all it is worth, and a fling now and then at the Republican party does not come a miss. The ministry for former celebrities remain tranquil beneath the attacks of authors. But criticize the Jews...