Word: whites
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Father O'Leary's most sensational speaker was Harvard's White Russian Sociologist Pitirim A. Sorokin, who declared that no aspect of modern culture had increased man's happiness. Stormed he: "The 20th Century has been the bloodiest. . . . Our contemporary art mortalizes the immortals . . . is sexually crazy and often sadistic. The We Kiss and Angels Sing, Heaven Can Wait and This Is Paradise of the crooners are examples. . . . Contemporary art . . . is centred around the police morgue, a criminal's hideout or the sex organs...
...tiny village of Perryville, Alaska normally harbors 92 Indians and two white schoolteachers. Last week 80 of the Indians had gone north to their seasonal fishing grounds. The remaining 14 souls in Perryville were not happy to be there. For Mt. Veniaminof, only 15 miles away, was blowing its head...
...best of its cartoons (by Ogg Fitz-Gerald of the Wall Street Journal) showed a wide-eyed, wavy-eared white rabbit with a magician's wand in its paw (see cut), pulling Franklin Roosevelt from a silk hat, over the caption: "THAT'S NEWS!" Some of its fantastic side lights on Recession...
Thomas T. White...
...John R. White...