Word: racing
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Anti-Birth Race...
Something must be done to stop the terrible suffering to women in the "birth race" which is sure to ensue for this money. I can think of only one way to stop it, but please print my idea. It is not "highfalutin," but is based on the fact that men will act only from the most sordid self interest...
Joseph Morrill '28 and W. W. Adams '28 are running a close race for the goal position. Morrill was perhaps the outstanding player of the Freshman team two years ago, and it was largely due to his stellar work that the 1928 six went through its season with such great success. Adams alternated with Morrill as substitute last year and is giving his rival a close race...
...fact that in this highest of inellectual sports an attempt has been made toward the meeting of while and colored on an equal footing, is highly creditable. There has been a great deal of loose talk and writing upon the intelligence of the negro, twisted from the truth by race prejudice and passion. Had the scene of this debate been laid further south anything from a race riot down might well have taken place, such, is the strength of tradition, no matter how illogical or untested it may be Oxford, by its meeting with Lincoln, has broken down one more...
...humanitarian,' 'foremost Jew,' 'great constitutional lawyer.' Julius Rosenwald revived my late wife's term of 'the E. J.-Enthusiastic Jew.' Judge Cardoza said I was 'a great civic institution.' My law partner, Samuel Untermyer, called me 'the most prodigious worker I have ever known.' Besides members of my own race, such men as Elihu Root, James W. Wadsworth Jr., Justice Harlan F. Stone, George W. Wickersham and James Weldon Johnson wrote tributes which were published in the current issue, dedicated entirely to me, of The Jewish Tribune. An editorial in that magazine proclaimed me 'the acknowledged leader of American Jewry...