Word: better
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...pigeonholed by the House Rules Committee, the subject of the campaign books cropped up again, this time in the Senate Committee on Interstate Commerce investigation of the Van Sweringen railway system. By the time the railroad investigation got back on the track, the campaign books had taken up the better part of three days' hearings, made most of their headlines, been threshed out almost as thoroughly as they would have been in an investigation of their...
...more & more space to the ex-King and his wife. The evening Star reported last week that the couple propose to devote their future to social work in England as soon as "calumnies and slander" have abated. A stanch little pro-Windsor party in Britain, who would like nothing better, regarded it as a favorable omen that the Duke last week sent $500 to a Leicestershire agricultural society for a new fair ground and the Duchess $25 to a fund for a new church school in Warfield, Berkshire, from which one of her ancestors sailed for the New World...
Mussolini, no altruist, was clearly hoping that he would be properly rewarded for his friendliness. He would like nothing better than for the British Government to recognize his Ethiopian conquest, then to persuade the League of Nations to follow suit. As the week progressed these hopes looked less & less wild...
...work at political jobs days and practice law evenings. New York City has 112 Negro lawyers, mostly in Harlem. In the entire South there are but 200. Southern Negroes are either too poor to pay a lawyer or else are likely to feel a white lawyer can do better for them in the courts. "The future is often cloudy and even ominous," complained chocolate-skinned Austin Thomas Walden of Atlanta to the convention. "The Negro, not yet wholly freed from the tentacles of the subservient and defeatist hereditary psychology created by 250 years of chattel slavery and surrounded...
...State law barring Negroes from registering in Democratic primaries. Philadelphia's lanky Raymond Pace Alexander, Harvard Law '23, who claims to be the "most active Negro lawyer" with 200 cases a year and net annual income of $20,000, reported that in the North things are somewhat better. Successful Negro lawyers can average about $5,000 a year. With a broad grin, Lawyer Alexander told how he delighted to go South on a case and force white lawyers to call him "Mr." "They'll gladly call you Professor, Colonel, or Doctor, but Mister sticks...