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When Negroes were drafted for the A. E. F., the Army, mindful of race prejudice even under the stress of battle, put them into colored units of their own instead of sprinkling them indiscriminately among white troops. Few, if any, protests were made against this military segregation. But the War Department's determination to segregate by race the Gold Star Mothers it is sending to France this year brought forth last week loud protest to President Hoover from the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People. Fifty-five black mothers with sons buried in France declared they would...
...Subscriber Moran, a thoroughgoing rebuke for his lack of fire. In future let him specify TIME'S errors and, for Truth's sake, protest...
...conductor could do no more than call an ambulance when the train reached Tokyo. Admiral Kato's brave protege died in hospital. Practically the entire Japanese press assumed that his suicide was a protest against the Treaty, though he left behind no explanation...
...Manhattan last week at their semi-annual International Conference for the Investigation of Vivisection, anti-vivisectionists displayed their might and main. Their might: 150 delegates, representing 125 U. S. humane and antivivisectionist societies. Their main: protest to President Hoover against the "political activities of the U. S. Public Health Service and U. S. Army in opposition to a bill to exempt dogs from vivisection in the District of Columbia"; a protest to Governor Albert Cabell Ritchie of Maryland that his State Board of Health has been active against anti-vivisectionists. Mrs. Ruth Hanna McCormick, Senatorial candidate in Illinois, telegraphed...
...worried because it was absurd to waken the whole Yard so that thirty men could attend chapel one hour and three-quarters later. Even the individual Seniors each year passed from active objection to torpid acceptance, and so each new class has had the bell wished upon it. This protest, too, offered more in sorrow than in anger, may go unheard; but the morning curses, still unuttered, of Freshmen, still unmatriculated, should give it weight...