Word: uniformities
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Master Race. It is a sadly beaten and demoralized army that leaves dead generals on the battlefield. East of Minsk, among 5,000 enemy dead,, the Russians found a corpse in a general's uniform...
...people of Allegheny County came to fetch him, neat in his freshly laundered uniform. There followed for handsome, reticent Mitch Paige three sweltering days of parades, gifts, testimonials, speeches. High moment came when the cars halted in. the small town of Versailles. Spying a grocery store, Mitch Paige excused himself, hopped out. Said he: "I just want to smell a grocery store again...
...word to this world conflict is faith and not despair. . . . Winning the war and winning the peace are one and indivisible. Right now the peacemakers of our time are our sons in uniform, who offered the last full measure. In this war, God's stake is the greatest for liberty and justice. All freedoms are at stake. We shan't win with hate, hate of any man in all the world's wide border. We will win with love, love of liberty, love of home, love of all brave men who will dare...
...group, Southerners insisted that Negroes in uniform keep strictly to the Jim Crow laws. Crowded buses, where the races were forced to mingle, became the scene of ugly flare-ups. In some sections bus drivers toted guns. The South was prepared to back up its Jim Crow laws with force. On at least one occasion an "uppity" Negro soldier bus-rider was shot dead...
Military Expediency. The Army had never wanted or hoped to solve America's race problem. That was a job for the nation, and it would take years. All the Army hoped to do was to make and keep its civilians in uniform good soldiers for the duration...