Word: sorting
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...time Gerhart walked into Bow Street Police Court this week he was-in an international sort of way-hotter than a sheriff's pistol. He was ordered to show cause why he should not be extradited to the U.S., and put in jail without bail for the eight days until the hearing begins...
...Navy insisted that it had already "integrated" its 17,500 Negroes, but it was a strange sort of integration: 10,500 of them were steward's mates in mess halls, and only five were officers. In the Marine Corps there are about 1,500 Negroes, none of them officers. The Army has given its 71,189 Negroes better assignments, more chances for promotion (there are 1,267 Negro Army officers), but all along the line Negroes and whites have been generally segregated...
...would like to see his American Council taken seriously as the formal opposition to the Federal Council of Churches. His main charges against the Federal Council: 1) identifying Christianity with social reforms; 2) failing to accept every word of the Bible as literally true; 3) trying to make some sort of a deal with the Roman Catholic Church ("a system which enslaves and destroys the souls of mortal...
...falls in love with a shopgirl of poor reputation. Their love brings about her regeneration as well as much happiness to them both. Unfortunately, the girl has been having an affair with a sadistic school teacher who has been regularly getting her drunk and subjecting her to the sort of depravities the demented, educated mind dreams up. Between tormenting the girl at night, and the classroom torment he gives the body during the day, the schoolteacher causes one death and one near-ruin among the young couple. Strangely enough, he does not fall down an elevator shaft...
When the shouting had died and the contestants were homeward bound, the correspondents gathered about Tom Bolles, a sort of local oracle on these matters. His first remarks were in part...