Word: african
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Astute cultivator of Ohio's potent Negro vote is Maurice Maschke, Republican National Committeeman and party boss of Cleveland. Fortnight ago cigar-smoking, bridge-playing Boss Maschke went to St. Paul's African Methodist Episcopal Church to help launch Negro Councilman Leroy Bundy's campaign for reelection. His wide mouth below a hawk nose stretched into a wide grin as he looked down benevolently upon 400 praying, chanting blacks. Up rose Rev. 0. A. Childress, Negro preacher, and spoke...
...potent party of African Negro chiefs, all well and quietly dressed by Bond Street, were received in the Royal Robing Room of the House of Lords last week by Baron Stanley of Alderley...
English employers pay African labor only 10¢ a day for the hardest kind of work, declared the Paramount Chief indignantly "and our people are often punished for breaking laws that they never knew existed...
...Chicago is an excrescence of the Middle Ages which can exist only in the world's most Tory-ridden country. He who would destroy all that Chicago stands for would uproot the African jungles and plant a dirty Birmingham or Bradford in its place. Let us leave Chicago alone as something which we thought died out in the old days, and be surprised at its coming alive again...
...Public Enemy (Warner). Director at an executive meeting: "I've got an inspiration. Well make an African picture. Something new. Go right into the interior and use natives for actors. Nothing like Trader Horn. This one's going to be different. Now what will we call it. Trader what...