Word: wishfulness
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Poll tax repeal definitely will not give the vote to any colored people. North Carolina repealed her poll tax over 20 years ago, yet Negores do not vote in North Carolina. It can only strengthen the determination of unenlightened Southerners who wish to keep the Negro disfranchised...
...wish also you had printed the courageous paragraph from Society in America-the book reviewed was a by-product of that work-as an inspiration to us hypacusics. She said...
Speaking as one of the millions of hard-of-hearing folk in this land I wish that in your admirable review of Harriet Martineau's Retrospect of Western Travel (TIME, Nov. 2) the reviewer had played up more dramatically Harriet's really amazing achievement. This was not writing a lively and realistic description of our infant republic, but rather in spite of serious deafness collecting the facts for it. My lifelong interest in Harriet was inspired by her handicap, for I, too, have been seriously deaf all my life...
...majority of them having enlisted. . . . There isn't one who would drink while on duty, who would drink while driving a car, or who likes to drink and roll in the gutter. But on their occasional weekends home, they have certainly earned the right to relax as they wish and they will certainly find a drink waiting for them in my home. I'll go further and state that regardless of the success achieved by the W.C.T.U., these men will always find a drink waiting for them in my home...
...addition to giving College authorities an idea of the number of accelerating Seniors who will have amassed sufficient credits to graduate this term, the survey will also reveal how many men wish to take their General Examination in January...