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...Chicago, celebrating the 25th anniversary of the day when it was founded by Booker T. Washington, the National Negro Business League convened. Dr. Robert R. Moton, President of Tuskegee University, presided. In his opening speech he referred to the National Negro Finance Corporation, recently organized as a financial backer for Negro enterprises: "For 16 years the founder of this organization, Booker T. Washington, sought with tact and courage to overcome what seemed almost an obsession with our people- business fear and timidity. In large measure as individuals, and even more so in groups, we have overcome this timidity. The need...
...plantation melodies and negro folk songs between 11 o'clock and midnight at the Yale-Harvard dance in the Union next Friday evening. These colored singers are making a tour of the United States and are singing at various colleges. The college from which they come was founded by Booker T. Washington...
...Columbia University graduated a grandmother aged 71 and Kansas University graduated a man of 81 at its last commencement. . . . The three R's are comparatively easy subjects for the adult mind and none are too old to grasp them. . . . " If there should be one Booker T. Washington, Edison or Lincoln among them, although it cost $20,000,000 to bring him out, it would be well worth the price...
...World Court cannot be divided from the League of Nations- unless we want to make it a joke!"-Senator Oscar W. Underwood in An interview at Chattanooga. "The League of Nations and the World Court are about as related as Booker T. Washington and George!" -Ex-Senator Frank B. Kellogg of Minnesota. (Mr. Kellogg favors U. S. entry into the Court, would avoid the League.) Professor Irving Fisher, Yale economist, said in a speech at East Liverpool, Ohio, that during the front porch campaign of 1920, the then Senator Harding told him: "I want the U. S. to get into...
...doctor but an auditor, and quickly departed when sentiment in the town demanded he do so. Actually there were 15 Negro patients and a white staff present. Dr. Moton left town shortly after the incident. It was declared at the Institute that no "direct threats" had been made on Booker Washington's successor. Reports declared, moreover, that he was not in favor of the installation of complete Negro staff and that sentiment in Tuskegee was friendly...