Word: stress
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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When Negroes were drafted for the A. E. F., the Army, mindful of race prejudice even under the stress of battle, put them into colored units of their own instead of sprinkling them indiscriminately among white troops. Few, if any, protests were made against this military segregation. But the War Department's determination to segregate by race the Gold Star Mothers it is sending to France this year brought forth last week loud protest to President Hoover from the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People. Fifty-five black mothers with sons buried in France declared they would...
...these problems can in some part be solved by Phillips Brooks House. They are in a position to effect a sufficient change in their present policy that will help to alleviate the stress that the coming innovations will bring about. As a meeting place in the Yard this house can fill in the inadequacies that the loss of the Union and present Freshmen Dormitories will give rise to. A liberal attitude on their part will go far toward bringing about a successful transition from the Harvard of the present to the Harvard of the future...
...Yale speakers, who supported the present prohibition enforcement situation, laid unusual stress on economic arguments, and declared that they were entirely satisfied with the prevailing conditions. D. B. McCalmont contended that less drinking was the desired objective, and was supported by his colleagues P. M. Calfle, and P. W. Hoon...
...illustrate: In the steel strike of 1919 the Press ot Pittsburgh sided entirely with the employers. . . . Actually in only one issue out of 400 did an article appear which described the scandalous violations of American liberties and of the federal Constitution by local authorities. ... I desire here, however, to stress that there are real and legitimate difficulties in the way of the Associated Press's reporting the troubles of the disfranchised and disadvantaged...
...also the unfortunate necessity of carrying regular course work. The system which now obtains in the literature departments allows only those who secure honor grades in divisionals to be exempted from final course examinations. But even this intended boon comes too late, for only after the period of stress is over, may one hope for the empty favor of exemption from finals which are already half prepared...