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...minutes of program time, Dewey managed to answer eight questions. He announced he was against socialized medicine ("I don't want politicians taking care of me when I'm sick"), against racial restrictions in public housing, denied he had been ordered to run for office by Wall Street bankers ("the biggest lie of all time"). The most titillating question came from a Columbia University student named Barbara E. Scott. Why, she asked, did he wear a mustache? Answer: shaving hurts the Dewey upper...
Almost daily, U.S. newspapers are confronted by a nettlesome problem for which they have found no final answer. The problem: Should Negroes be identified as such in news stories? Many newspapers follow the New York Times's practice, use the racial tag "only when there is a legitimate purpose to be served" or it is "a matter of pride to all of us," i.e., when a Negro is honored. But many other Northern newspapers, and almost all Southern dailies, label Negroes as such whenever they appear in the news. Last week, the Chicago Tribune was smack up against...
South-West Africa's election (for whites only) had been held in defiance of the U.N., which insists that South-West Africa is still a mandated territory. There now seemed no political bar to a fanatic, explosive Nationalist program of full apartheid (racial separateness...
Aged (80) Jan Christian Smuts, who had fought the British in the Boer War, who had taken South-West Africa from the Germans in World War I, and who favored a moderate racial policy, lay gravely ill last week at his farm near Pretoria. Rabid Nationalists kept him awake with taunting phone calls as the election returns from South-West Africa came in. In the streets of Pretoria, Johannesburg and Capetown, citizens who realized that the Germans now had the balance of power in their Parliament asked each other, "How's your German...
Spaulding, like the other delegates, did not want Negro businessmen to aim only at the Negro market; they should aim at a broader market, and compete, not on a racial basis, but as businessmen. Spaulding himself had proved that that could be done, when he opened a bank 41 years ago in the white business section of Durham, N.C. "Some people," he recalled, "said to me: 'You had better get out of there; they won't let you stay there . . .' We have been there ever since, and our relations with the white businessmen have been fine. About...