Word: americae
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Last week Oscar De Priest crossed back to the North, addressed another large Negro audience in Harlem, "capital of Black America." The theme of each speech was the same: the Negro's use of his political power to attain his constitutional rights. The De Priest treatment of that theme South and North was different. Comparisons...
Only once did the Lexington speech approximate the tenor of the Harlem address. That was when Congressman De Priest cried: "I occupy a serious position in America. The eyes of the civilized world are on Oscar De Priest. I have received more publicity than any other member of Congress. I will continue to fight for Negroes' rights in Congress and use bathrooms, barber shops and restaurants [at the Capitol] whether my colleagues like...
...direction, was incalculable. For calculating this current Steinmetz, who spurned the smaller problems he was given, produced his own "symbolic method" which gave General Electric decisive advantage over competitors. No inventor he, the Steinmetz theoretical work found fruition in three thick red volumes, Alternating Current. His popular book is America and the New Epoch, showing why he was pro-German in the War, also how the merger of small companies into a trust was a step toward Socialism. After indulging in Socialist politics, a Western lecture tour, a denial as scientist, of immortality and God's existence, Steinmetz died...
...Resolute successfully defended the America's cup against Sir Thomas Lipton's Shamrock IV. Syndicates of Atlantic coastal tycoons were announced last week, two of which carry on the old Vanitie-Resolute rivalry...
...There was the bovine Rousseau who was the laugh of Paris in his day and "Pere" Cezanne of whom the worthies of Aix said, with a shrug: "Surely he is mad." Today the sale of a Rousseau or a Cezanne is an art event. They run into five figures. America had Blakelock, painter of dark, glowing Indian encampments, who was committed to an insane asylum and kept in for the greater part of his life. It is well for the Fauves* of Paris that solicitous friends and relatives never sought court injunctions. Wild-beast Henri Matisse is still considered batty...