Word: racing
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...issue then shifted to the City Council, a special sitting of which was called to hurry through a $15,000 temporary all-Negro high school. The galleries were packed with "race people" who came to hear their viewpoint at last expressed without hindrance, by three Negro Councilmen. The Council has 15 members, and in the absence of three white members, the three Negroes were sufficient to block the passage of the $15,000 temporary appropriation, which required a two-thirds council vote...
Pondering this outcome, students of U. S. race problems reflected that 95% of all U. S. Negroes are descended from slave stock, some of which has been in the U. S. even longer than genuine Mayflower stock. They also reflected that, whereas U. S. Negroes form 14% of Gary's population, U. S. whites form 36%, foreign born whites form 50%. Thus a large majority of Winfield Eschelman & friends were-if representative of Gary's population-descended 14% from Slavs, 10% from Poles, 4% from Hungarians, 3% from Austrians, 3% from Croats, 3% from Italians, 2% from Germans...
...serve with loyalty and discipline the Fascisti idea of society based upon religion, nation and family, and to promote respect for law, order and hierarchy, and for the tradition of the race...
...unexplored west coast yielded to an expedition under direction of Publisher George Palmer Putnam, evidence of a great new mountain range that may yet cause the map of North America to be changed. Traces of a pre-Eskimo civilization (called by the explorers Tunic) pointed to a lost race...
...inter-dormitory cross-country race yesterday was won by Gore Hall, whose runners took the first four places. R. A. Aldrich '30 lowered the course record of eight minutes set last fall by W. G. Dooley '30. He covered the one and seven tenths miles in seven minutes, 52 seconds