Word: spirits
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Among 1,000 Southerners who swarmed into the auditorium of conservative Birmingham, Ala. last week for a Southern Conference for Human Welfare, were scores of Negroes, mostly educated. As this was a "progressive conference expressing the progressive spirit of the South," in response to the findings of President Roosevelt's National Emergency Council on "the nation's No. 1 economic problem" (TIME, July 18), blacks mingled freely with whites in selecting their seats. They did so, at least, for two days. Then the police of Birmingham appeared and, herding the black delegates into a segregated section, enforced...
...entirely friendly" spirit, New York's James Wolcott Wadsworth Jr., only Congressman who has been a Senator (1915-27), advanced himself last week as a rival to Massachusetts' Joe Martin as a candidate for Minority Leader of the House. Because, said he, "I feel that the course to be followed by the Republican minority . . . during the next two years is of vital importance." Western Congressmen think neither he nor Joe Martin deserves the Leadership, since the main Republican gains of the last election were made in other States (Pennsylvania, Ohio, Kansas, Michigan). Their candidate: Carl Mapes of Michigan...
...William Green or John L. Lewis of France (and neither cap quite fits Jouhaux) is nearer to "Moscow" than is M. Blum. Earthy, cigar-chewing, big-eating Léon Jouhaux is out for what he can get, whereas intellectual, nervous, lean Léon Blum is akin in spirit to the Roosevelt New Deal and is always advocating in his newspaper that Mr. Roosevelt do something or say something epochal...
...pictures exhibited last week were several such as The Three Trumpeters (see cut), which showed the gift for color and the clangorous Romantic imagination which made Delacroix mourn his early death: "Poor Géricault, I will think of you very often. I imagine that your spirit will often come to hover about my work...
...arms advance to the centre of the pit, let their fighters peck at one another to get up their dander. There were no bookmakers. Bets (some as high as $100) were verbal, made with one's neighbor on the basis of the cocks' breeding or their fighting spirit in the centre of the pit. Then, at a command from the referee, the handlers returned to opposite sides of the pit, crouched down and, at the command "Pit your cocks," let their birds go. In a split second the cocks were five feet in the air. beak to beak...