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...moment on Tuesday night it seemed as if the asterisk next to Jesse Jackson's name had been dabbed with Wite-Out. His win was impressive: a plurality of the Democratic popular vote. But as the evening wore on, commentators and candidates began talking about a two-man Democratic race, as if Jackson were the pace horse of the piece, running to show, not to win. Even the newly anointed third runner, Al Gore, referred to a race between himself and Dukakis, oblivious to the fact that if it were a two-man race, he would...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Why Can't Jesse Be Nominated? | 3/21/1988 | See Source »

...work then you go home, eat, watch the news, and go to sleep. There is no time for your own private studies. Life goes on. You see nothing." Still, Fawzi expressed no regrets about leaving Iraq "not really for political reasons," but in order to marry his American wite whom he met while they were both working in Algeria. Fawzi said that his decision to leave the land, which his family has farmed for centuries, was not one that many Iraquis would make. Most Iraqui emigrants go to England, he said. He has considered asking his parents to join...

Author: By Diane Sherlock, | Title: Denizens of Widener | 6/28/1976 | See Source »

...howled that Graham was a supporter of FEPC, and that he had addressed unsegregated meetings. Voters were asked darkly if they wanted their sons working under a Negro foreman. Thousands received postcards mailed from New York City extolling what Graham had done for Negroes, with the signature: "W. Wite, executive secretary, National Society for the Advancement of the Colored Race."*Against such tactics Graham felt forced to play down his Fair Dealing as much as possible. Though he had served on Harry Truman's Committee on Civil Rights (which recommended an FEPC), he insisted that, he had dissented...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: NORTH CAROLINA: Precarious Victory | 6/5/1950 | See Source »

Others in this class included Auto-Hydro-Craft's metal boats, Dee Wite, and four Hacker Craft, cheapest of which was a 24-footer at $3,150. Aeolian Co., whose wood products include pianos, and pipe organs, showed the Aco "Seaboats." Meteor Motor Car Co., a hearse-maker who last year turned to motorboats, did not show...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business & Finance: 1930 Motorboats | 1/27/1930 | See Source »

...Class color, blue and wite...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: The Class Races. | 5/7/1886 | See Source »

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