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...refugee: "Miners in the Ostrava pits went on strike for five days; the soldiers refused to fire on them. Convinced Communists tore party emblems from their lapels, spat on them. Plant militia killed three miners. One militiawoman who shot a miner was beaten to death...
...towards him as he was leaving. "I'm a Catholic!" she screamed. "You're not a Catholic-you're a nigger-lover and a Jew-lover. You call yourself a bishop. You're not a bishop, you're a rabbi." And she spat in his face...
...forthwith welcomed into the D.A.R., and some 4,000 of the ladies trooped to the White House to welcome their newest member. It was the biggest White House reception since the inauguration, and marked the end of a 15-year rift between the White House and the D.A.R. The spat started when the late F.D.R. once welcomed the delegates as fellow "immigrants." The rift widened when Eleanor Roosevelt resigned in" 1939 after the D.A.R. refused to allow Marian Anderson to sing in their Constitution Hall...
...weak and spread-legged, on a chair to rest and sip a little coffee. But an all-but-sacred presidential duty awaited him-an hour later he was at Washington's Griffith Stadium to throw out the first baseball of the season. Rest had improved his color. He spat on his right hand, grinned, and sent a new white baseball flying to the field, watched the game for an inning and a half (with Washington's Pitcher Connie Marrero standing by to cut off any fouls that might threaten to bean him) before heading, a little shakily, back...
...faced young man spat. "So you trust your Kukes, after that, do you?" he bawled. The other man coughed nervously, and looked abashed...