Word: classes
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Dates: during 1940-1940
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...speech began to swell; the crowd began to roar. At each challenge it rose-the challenge to manufactured class hatred, the challenge of poverty, the challenge to increase productivity ("Only the strong can be free and only the productive can be strong"), the challenge of greater hardships ("In these months ahead of us every man who works in this country-whether he works with his hands or with his mind-will have to work a little harder. ... You will have to be hard of muscle, clear of head, brave of heart...
...Scaturo, 22, of Brooklyn, N. Y., started out to be a teacher, got a Columbia University degree this year. Last week Messrs. Mishanec, Croft, Scaturo and 14 other young men of similar ages, backgrounds, prospective vo cations, acquired the rating and emoluments ($114 per month, with allowances) of second-class seamen, U. S. Navy. They slept in double-decker beds, jammed to gether in the neat, small Naval Air Reserve Station at Brooklyn's Floyd Bennett Airport. They stepped to the commands of a leathery Marine Corps sergeant. They scrubbed, greased, cranked, shoved, other wise manhandled a yellow Navy...
...svelte, 100% Nordic nudes dominated the show, with many busts and figures of Mussolini and Critic Hitler thrown in for good political measure. The most competent of this art (like the innocuously pleasant white Aryan nude of No. 1 Reich Sculptor Josef Thorak) would not have disgraced a high-class Victorian barroom of the 18905. The worst of it, resplendent with heiling storm troopers and Prussian eagles, would have looked well in a 1940 beer hall...
Most white folks suppose that all colored folks are low class. Not so. U. S. Negroes "differ socially among themselves as far as the poles," have at least six classes: lower-lower, upper-lower, lower-middle, middle-middle, upper-middle, upper. Upper-class Negroes describe their inferiors as "the common, ignorant sort of niggers." It is his class, rather than his race, which determines a Negro's behavior, personality, ambitions...
...authors were Dr. John Dollard, of Yale's Institute of Human Relations, and Allison Davis, head of the social studies department at Dillard University, now lecturing at University of Chicago. Allison Davis, a lightskinned, upper-class Negro, has degrees from Williams and Harvard, studied at the London School of Economics, won so many honors at Williams that he got a prize for winning prizes...