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Dates: during 1920-1929
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More of Amateur Darrow's philosophizings: "Nobody knows whether a black face is any less attractive than a white one. I say white, you know, although there is no such color. We noble Nordics are a sort of ashen-grey hue. . . . The fact that there are so many Negroes who are not colored shows how frequently colored girls have been raped by white men. "I was born where they believed he [a Negro] was better than the whites [at Kinsman, Ohio...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: Persistence | 3/28/1927 | See Source »

...Getting money and getting education are of first importance. The colored man . . . is getting it [education]-many people in the South say-faster than the white people. Intelligence is a misfortune to anybody, but especially to a colored person. If you do not know what is going on, a sort of fundamentalist, you are safe...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: Persistence | 3/28/1927 | See Source »

...What sort of banks will the newly passed McFadden-Pepper branch banking act aid materially...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: An Evening This Week: Game No. 4 | 3/21/1927 | See Source »

...average student council is apt to be like the House of Lords in doing nothing in particular and doing it very well. It generally further resembles the House of Lords in being chosen from the upper strata of society, and for service of one sort or another to the commonwealth. For the peer this service may consist in amassing enough money to buy a Derby winner and supply campaign funds; the student council member may have run the Barwell ends ragged, or may have shut out Yates...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: MAGNI IN PARVO | 3/21/1927 | See Source »

...Williams Council, therefore, will elect from its own number five men as a sort of executive board. These men will attend to much of the routine, and like the cabinet will pave the way for the operation of the council as a whole...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: MAGNI IN PARVO | 3/21/1927 | See Source »

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