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Faith ("a message of courage and good cheer") contains daily prayers, plenty of testimonials from members who have got out of debt, staved off illness, found happiness in a once-sordid world...
...does Los Angeles have these silly problem children rushing about in their ridiculous suits? Los Angeles has pressed the Negro and the Mexican into squalid ghettoes. Is it then so miraculous and amazing that this sordid environment does not produce model young Americans...
...Sordid Side. As witnesses the Committee called steel foremen, metallurgists and plain mill hands. Their evidence: 1) most of the chiseling was in the tests of the chemical content and tensile strength of the steel plates; 2) false entries on the test sheets were a "common practice." Big point in the investigation: Did faulty Carnegie-Illinois steel cause the Kaiser-built tanker Schenectady to break in half? The answer: yes & no. The American Bureau of Shipping report chiefly blamed poor welding ("There was neglect [in] adhering rigidly to established welding procedures . . . there were insufficient numbers of trained, experienced welders...
When the average white American soldier surveys his army, he sees it not as one unit, but as two distinct organizations: an American army and a Negro army. This sordid scene has been painted by the War Department, thinking it a graphic solution to racial problems in the Army. But the need for a mixed regiment is merely one aspect of this shallow picture the War Department has produced. There are others...
...Howard's Columnist Westbrook Pegler let go: "Of late it seems that a card of membership in the traitorous organization known as the Communist Party or a record of affiliation with avowed traitors of this group is one absolutely safe certificate of immunity. . . ." He called the commutation a "sordid, nasty deal...