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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Virginia's Democratic primaries, a Negro came within an ace of being nominated to the state legislature. Lawyer Oliver W. Hill, one of 18 candidates for Richmond's seven lower-house seats, finished eighth with 6,310 votes, just 190 short of nomination. Said the Richmond Times-Dispatch: "We may as well accustom ourselves to the thought that the Negro citizens of the Old Dominion may send one of their number to the General Assembly before many years are past...
...when the Washington housing situation was broom-closet tight, Texas' loud-mouthed Senator W. Lee ("Pappy") O'Daniel bought the four-story apartment building at 115 2nd St., N.E. for $52,500, and started eviction proceedings against the 14 families who occupied it. He needed all 40 rooms for his family, he claimed. "We're not used to being fenced in down in Texas," Pappy explained without blushing. "Besides, we want some place to put a cookstove." The 14 families had to leave...
...effort to close the perilous gap between the progress of science and the progress of morals, Yale University announced last week that it will double its science courses for liberal arts students, double required courses in the humanities for science majors. Said Dr. Edmund W. Sinnott, director of Yale's Sheffield Scientific School: "Science alone may make monsters...
...Burlington, Vt., Governor Ernest W. Gibson, a city fellow, bravely entered a cow-milking contest, labored before 5,000 spectators, came out third & last. The winner, who milked with one hand, could show a half-pail. The Governor's two-handed take: two cups...
Although "The Yearling" may remind one of the haunting nature novels of W. H. Hudson, happily it plays safe in keeping its feet firmly on realistic ground. As a background for the romance are the problems of a small farmer in feeding his family, while he lives more or less cut off from the world. The necessary influence of the few contacts with the outside is made clear, and thus the story is kept credible and interesting. On this basis, the fresh imagination of Miss Rawlings' novel delights, hardly ever falling into dreaded bathos...