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Word: whites (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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...free, white & 21, a member of the Civilian Conservation Corps. Within a few months I must leave the Corps, when my service time-limit expires. ... I am a cartoonist ; naturally my work speaks louder than my words...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Jan. 23, 1939 | 1/23/1939 | See Source »

Vice President & Mrs. John Nance ("Cactus Jack") Garner last week dined at the White House (he in white tie & tails). Contrary to report, Cactus Jack likes the party that the President gives him every year. He attended in 1934, 1935, 1937, 1938. Top members of Congress (Borah, Sheppard, McNary, Sabath, Rayburn, Boland, etc. etc.) were there. But local chit-chat artists were truly swamped two nights later when the Roosevelts entertained the 76th Congress, swamped by the new faces presented and their political implications. At the Congressional Reception, Jim Farley held court in a receiving line...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE PRESIDENCY: Parties & Men | 1/23/1939 | See Source »

...just how Coach Ulen will shuffic his men will not be known until the men are called for their respective events, Lopey Forbush will assist Captain Rusty Greenhood in the dive and the two ought to sweep their event, while Ed Hewitt will be given the call over Bob White to swim with Eric Cutler...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Crimson Hoopmen Tangle With Indians; Swimmers Meet Strong Bruin Natators | 1/18/1939 | See Source »

...white man's country' is the basis of Southern society, whose viewpoint was untouched by the War, and who reestablished their discipline by disfranchising the Negro politically, reducing him to peonage, and segregating him socially...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Buck Speaks on Problem of the Negro; Declares It 'Insoluble' at Present Time | 1/17/1939 | See Source »

...White superiority, or rather the widespread belief in it, is the permanent base on which the question of the Negro's status rests. "Once people realize the insolubility of the equality problem, then they will learn to live with...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Buck Speaks on Problem of the Negro; Declares It 'Insoluble' at Present Time | 1/17/1939 | See Source »

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