Word: whited
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...father, writing to me from Southwestern China, has in custody a white girl, unable to speak a word of English but aware that she is the daughter of an American father and a Russian mother. For nearly 20 years she has been a slave, bought and sold among various Chinese families as necessity dictated. From Mukden, her presumable birthplace, where she was first placed in an orphanage, she has been carried over North and Central China to her present haven near the Burmese border. Undoubtedly, along with my own parents and all the population of unconquered China, she has endured...
...Henry Morgenthau to revise corporation taxes this year (TIME, May 22), Franklin Roosevelt last week executed a fast fadeaway which saved the faces (and possibly the resignations) of Messrs. Hanes and Morgenthau. The face-saving compromise (influenced in part by press and Congressional pressure) was effected at a White House luncheon topped off by peach shortcake. The President and Tax Revisionist Pat Harrison (who had huffily told Mr. Roosevelt he was going to get a new tax bill whether he liked it or not) were brought together by Jimmy Byrnes, the slickest compromiser in the Senate. Giving...
Regardless of Franklin Roosevelt's understandable silence on his successor, many a visitor upon leaving the White House looked searchingly down the road for the bandwagon. Said New York's playwriting Representative Sirovich: "He did not say that he would not be a candidate but from my talks with his most intimate advisers, I am convinced . . . renomination . . . re-election." Chicago's Mayor Kelly also double-negatived: ". . . did not say he would not. . . ." Twenty-four hours before Iowa's ex-Governor Kraschel left the White House avowing that his State's people "would never be satisfied...
Chief Justice White died in 1921. President Harding appointed ex-President Taft to fill the vacancy. Then Justice Clarke of Ohio retired. George Sutherland of Utah replaced him. Justice Day of Ohio retired soon after that. The Catholic Church, left without a member on the bench since Chief Justice White's death, clamored for a Catholic. The Eastern hierarchy wanted young Martin Manton of New York. But Taft and old George W. Wickersham plugged for another Catholic (who also was a Democrat, most Catholics being Democrats), one from the Northwest. So, Pierce Butler of Minnesota was appointed instead...
Most Negroes elected to serve in legislative chambers with white men are noticeable only because they are black or because they blatantly insist on their race's rights. Oscar De Priest and his successor, Arthur Mitchell, only two Negroes elected to the U. S. Congress since Reconstruction, rated far below average in ability. Not so Homer Brown. Quiet, effective, popular, he is sought out by his white colleagues for his opinions on constitutional law-which is his heavyweight hobby. That attribute, plus his oratorical persuasiveness, pegs him as the lower house's most influential member on nonpartisan legislation...