Word: congressmen
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...long years hot-blooded Congressmen from the South have smouldered at the presence of a lone Negro on the Republican side of the House of Representatives. He was Oscar De Priest of Chicago and he did not hesitate to speak up boldly for his race. As a result of last fortnight's election, when Southern Congressmen return to the Capitol on Jan. 3, they will find Representative De Priest gone. But their racial embarrassment will be more rather than less because they will find sitting squarely in their Demo cratic midst another Chicago Negro by the name of Arthur...
...there was a great pother of excitement when Republican Oscar De Priest's wife in a blue chiffon dress, grey hat and coat and on Mrs. Herbert Hoover's invitation, went to the White House one afternoon to drink tea with white Congressmen's ladies (TIME, June 24, 1929). Mrs. Mitchell will expect a similar tea-date with Mrs. Roosevelt. "There is no prejudice against my people in the present Administration.'' the black Gentleman from Illinois told his constituents. "This is a new day under a New Deal...
...What is the attitude of your public men?Senators, Congressmen, State Legislators...
...letter dated November 2, and addressed to the same 4000 graduates, Mayor Russell charged that Simpson's letter is "conspicuously unfair because it violates the main rule of decent campaigning, whereby Congressmen in one district refrain from interfering in any other district." He continues, saying, "I am not asking help from anybody in Chicago, nor do I ask your support because I happen to be a Harvard...
...enough to pay the wages of 50 people working in his Long Beach office. There were Townsend Clubs in every State except Delaware?644 clubs in all, 200 in California alone. Between 2,000,000 and 5,000,000 people had put their names to petitions begging their Congressmen to vote the Plan into effect at once. It had a scattering support from small editors, syndicated philosophers. Wrote the "Poet Laureate of California": "There seemed to be so much more sense in it than what Spengler, Ortega and all those so-called smart fellows have been saying...