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...change in the 18th Amendment, we should turn the subject back to the states, so that each state, within constitutional limits, may settle it in accordance with the convictions and conscience of its own people, those communities that want Volsteadism being free to have it, but those that resent it being no longer forced into taking...
...amount of leisure, spicing the rite with conversation with a kindred spirit. Even a few relevant words from the waiter are not unwelcome. Feeding and dining are both operations that have to do with food. But feeding is just high pressure stoking of the alimentary tract with fuel. "Feeders" resent the time required to do the job, and are hoping that some bright chap will soon boil all food down to a capsule that can be taken on the run, with no time...
...have just received the second copy of your magazine TIME. I find no pleasure in it. I also resent your spirit of the "wide-mouthed Southern Negro," since you do not know them as I do. Please find enclosed $.30, the price of the two copies and take my name from your mailing list and oblige. J. W. FAUT...
...upper-class, conservative Negro, embracing the doctrine that the white man is superior to the black, accepts Nordic standards, regrets his dusky hue, shapes his life toward proving that his soul, at least, is white or near-white. More radical Negroes, notably the younger school of Negro writers, resent the assumption of white superiority, feel that black culture is different from but on an equal plane with white, maintain that the future of the colored race lies in its proudly being as black as it is painted...
...Republican National Committeeman Charles Dewey Hilles returned from the Middle West last week and announced that here and there but not everywhere the farmers resent the veto of the McNary-Haugen bill...