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...their kin down South. Hotels and restaurants still refuse to serve Negroes (though sometimes they get sued for refusing) ; in the heart of dark Harlem, Negroes are hard put to find jobs in stores where they are welcome buyers. Many a labor union, dominated by white majorities, excludes Negroes outright or does as little as possible for colored brethren after collecting their dues...
...that something had certainly sapped democracy's vigor. Read to the Senators was President Roosevelt's modest proposal for a small loan to Finland. It was not the only one to reach them. Youngish, independent Senator Prentiss Brown of Michigan (pop. 4,800,000) had proposed an outright loan of $60,000,000, but no action had been taken...
...Wall Street banking house of Dillon, Read & Co., Fisk directors listened to a proposition from big, potent U. S. Rubber Co., nodded their heads in approval. U. S. Rubber offered to buy Fisk outright for $6,827,330 cash and 109,981 shares of U. S. Rubber Common, holders of Fisk's 34,738 preferred shares to get $110 a share cash (call price), holders of its 439,923 common shares $6.75 a share cash plus 1 share of U. S. Rubber common (last week priced about...
This last clause, which carefully does not bind Russia to abstain from spreading Communist propaganda in Estonia, seemed to mean that the country will be spared for a time such outright Bolshevization as the Russians are putting through in their part of Poland. Military experts said that the Pact definitely transforms Estonia from a country capable of fighting for its independence into one completely at the mercy of the Soviet ships, planes and troops which are now to be based on her soil...
...Greene will not say this outright. America need not join the fight until "issues vitally affecting our national interests" are at stake. But here Mr. Greene's interpretation of what these issues are leaves America very little choice. For it is his opinion that a "final victory of German force over Britain and France has implications impossible to reconcile with the future peace and security of our own country." Here, then, is the vital issue...