Word: blacks
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Meantime, while Reporter Sprigle was being mentioned for the Pulitzer Prize, political realists remarked that the completeness of his findings ironically suggested that the association which so shocked the U. S. might have been revealed, precisely because it no longer existed. For disappointment at Hugo Black's failure to pay back his political obligations might have been a motive for Klan bigwigs, from whom alone Reporter Sprigle could apparently have got some of his more damaging information, to make public at the most inopportune moment his relation with...
...eventual consequences of the" Black scandal would, it appeared, be more painful for Mr. Roosevelt than for his appointee. Sworn in secretly the day he received his commission, Justice Black had been measured for his robes before sailing for Europe. Last week, the Albany, N. Y. firm which specializes in judicial robes announced that Hugo Black's $90 costume of ebony French silk was ready to put on when Hugo Black returns. For the President the Black scandal came most embarrassingly at the time when he was not only proposing to reopen his campaign to put more sympathetic jurists...
Last week, dispatches from London indicated that Justice Hugo Black would get back to the U. S. next week. In Washington the President suddenly ceased to be indecisive about the trip to the West Coast which he has been considering for the past month, announced that he would leave this week (see p. 9). Thus, when Hugo Black gets back from Europe and when the Supreme Court convenes on Oct. 4, Franklin Delano Roosevelt will be far, far away...
...cafeterias and food shops were members of A. F. of L.'s Hotel & Restaurant Employes Union. Dissatisfied with the indifference of the passing public, two Automat pickets, David Hart and Joseph Molner, paraded with placards picturing two chefs in conversation, one holding a pot, the other dangling a black cat, obviously dead...
...wife of North Carolina's Hoey. Neither the Governor of North Carolina nor the Governor of South Carolina took a drink. Alabama's Bibb Graves and his lady, Dixie Bibb Graves, the new Senator from Alabama, were harassed by newshawks seeking statements about Associate Justice Hugo Black (see p. 10). Only Florida's Cone, who talked long and earnestly to Indiana's Townsend, seemed bored by the entertainment...