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Often, Southerners, wary of offending a dark-skinned man who might turn out to be a United Nations diplomat, would ask: "Are you colored?" Angrily, Rowan would retort: "Can't you see I'm colored? What you mean is, am I an American? Yes, I am an American." Thus assured, they would make him keep to the color line...
...Daily News made its own unjournalistic retort four days later. For a story headlined Ex-Ace JAILED ON A CHARGE OF BANK ROBBERY, the News dug up an old picture of Reagan talking to one Byron Kennedy, an ex-Air Force officer who had been arrested on a charge of robbing an East Los Angeles bank. (Reagan had posed with Kennerly nine years before, when the airman was technical adviser on one of Reagan's pictures...
...representative on the U.N. Security Council, lost patience with Russia's Jacob Malik. The Russian representative, snapped Dr. Tsiang one day last week, "spends much of his superabundant energy in trying to prove to us that black is white and that white is black." Malik's retort made spectators grin: Tsiang's reference to black & white was "an insult to 14 million Negroes in the U.S." He added heavily: "White men, too, may have a black conscience and a black soul...
...were the same lie-studded ones he had delivered before. Three times he spoke lengthily, then when he sought the floor for a fourth time, Jebb snapped: "I suppose you could go on making your arguments forever." Malik said he needed only "one sentence" this time. Jebb's retort was rapier-quick: "I would be delighted to hear a speech of one sentence from the Soviet Union representative." The audience laughed and cheered. Malik flushed. Jebb let the noise linger 45 seconds before he gaveled for silence...
...McCarthy was not on the Senate floor when Chavez spoke, but, never at a loss for words, he soon answered: "Poor Dennis Chavez" was a "dupe" in an Administration plot. An angrier retort came from the Very Rev. Laurence J. McGinley, S.J., president of Fordham University, where Budenz teaches economics. Senator Chavez, said Father McGinley, had been guilty of slander, hypocrisy, cowardliness and "personal vilification . . . even lower than that reached in the columns of the Daily Worker." Budenz had Fordham's "full confidence . . . The Senator had the effrontery, moreover, to pose as a Catholic while publicly enacting this vicious...