Word: randolphs
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...FEPC, and the Democratic Party, are under equal pressure from Negroes. FEPC, itself, was established as the result of a Negro threat in 1941 to march, 50,-ooo strong, on Washington. The threatener: Florida-born, New York-educated A. (for Asa) Philip Randolph, 54, who, though no porter himself, runs the airtight sleeping car porters union. He has been the main author of the relentless pressure on FEPC ever since. In political terms, if FEPC moves forward, it is damned by Southern Democrats; if it stands still, it receives the scorn of the Negro population-and may lose...
...mistake when they carefully repaint cribs with lead-containing paint.) And not many doctors realize that one consequence of the plumbic passion in children may be stupidity. Last week doctors and parents learned the worst from an article in the American Journal of Diseases of Children, by Dr. Randolph Kunhardt Byers and the late Elizabeth Evans Lord, Ph.D., of Boston...
...Stalin the Great" and saluted the President twice over, as "Roosevelt the President" and "Roosevelt the Man." The party roared on in high good humor, until young Private Hopkins' eyes were boggling out at the flow of liquor and the animated scenes around him: General Marshall and Randolph Churchill talking to Elliott; Molotov excitedly talking with Eden and Cadogan; Hap Arnold laboriously exchanging anecdotes with Voroshilov...
Outflanked and defeated, Henry Morgenthau nevertheless took his dress sword in hand and attacked head on. Without even a microscopic chance of success, he recited before the Senate's Finance Committee this week, his plea for a whopping tax measure. Said Treasury Counsel Randolph Paul: "It seems utterly unreasonable to erect a mountain of complexity for such a molehill of revenue...
...stomach, urine in the bladder, blood in a chamber of a man's heart. Captain Hass said that if doctors had known of these crash effects in the past, many victims could have been diagnosed in time to save their lives by simple operations. Lieut. Colonel W. Randolph Lovelace, retiring president of the Association, called the paper the most important given before the Association in its 15-year history...