Word: whites
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...dislike labels but let it be said at least that he was in a way a victim of the noble white man's justice. He had the courage to war with what didn't seem quite justice to him. You might envy him just a little. I do. What the hell...
...avoid upsetting the stockmarket, announcement of the Fleet order was withheld until after noon Saturday (see p. 17). But at 10:30 a.m. correspondents covering the State Department were told to go over to the White House offices. Secretary Hull crossed the street ahead of the newshawks. Also seated in the President's office when the press was admitted were UnderSecretary Welles and Chairman Key Pittman of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee. When 25 correspondents had filed in (usually there are more than 100), President Roosevelt asked in surprise: "Where are they all?" The White House had outdone itself...
...village of Altdorf, said one report, "three Germans were beaten by Poles with clubs and wire whips and injured considerably because they spoke German." German divisions were moved up to Poland's western border. On their part, the Poles ordered Polish Nazis to take off their distinctive white socks, and moved new divisions into place opposite the German Army concentrations. In Danzig itself, newspapers reported that Adolf Hitler would be made an honorary citizen of the Free City on his birthday...
...next fiscal year. Unofficial calculations were that 200 Georgia schools, with 20,000 pupils, were closed. In many a Georgia village and town, worried citizens met to talk of ways & means of educating their children. Some decided to keep the public schools open by charging tuition. In Lamar County, white children's school term was shortened to eight months, Negro children's schools were closed. At Villa Rica, a mass meeting raised $2,000 to keep schools open four weeks. Among the contributions: from the Villa Rica high-school senior class, $25 that its members had saved...
...bring gulpers "to their senses." At week's end he was thwarted by what seemed an ultimate -horror -in -gulping, which was perpetrated at University of Illinois. Pi Kappa Phi's John Poppelreiter, surrounded by admiring fraternity brothers, wrapped in lettuce and swallowed five live baby white mice...