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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...nominee, named Oscar De Priest, was by no means the unanimous choice of his fellow blackamoors. William L. Dawson, a Negro who had run against Representative Madden in the April primary and lost by less than 12,000 votes, promised to contest Mr. De Priest's nomination in court. Up-and-coming younger Negroes said that Oscar De Priest was the oldtime Uncle Tom type, not well suited to represent the modern negro in Congress. There was, moreover, a vice-graft shadow on the De Priest record as a member of the Thompson machine, in which he had functioned...
...these obstacles looked small last week and Chicagoans as well as Southerners counted on seeing Oscar De Priest's large, dusky figure in the House chamber next session. The last Negro Congressman was Representative George Henry White who served in the 55th and 56th Congresses from Tarboro, N. C. Before him there were 19 Negro Representatives and two Negro Senators. A majority of them were members of Reconstruction Congresses and men of small education. Ten, however, went to college; five were lawyers; others were preachers, teachers, planters. Seven were born slaves. Both the Senators were elected in Mississippi. Senator...
...Henry Ford steamed home from their vacation in England (TIME, April 16, et seq.) aboard the Majestic, upon which they were again listed under the alias of "Mr. & Mrs. John Robinson." Meanwhile at Para, Brazil, the newspaper Folha de Norte published alleged revelations of the text of a rubber plantation agreement signed by the Ford interests and the State of Para. The agreement, denounced as a "scandalous document," was declared to grant Mr. Ford "unlimited permission to engage in commerce, industry, banking, navigation, and the hiring of contract labor . . . unrestricted by government control" throughout a vast tract of land...
Senorita Mercedes Castellanos achieved politest world renown (TIME, April 23) when it was announced at Madrid that she, an orphan & a spinster of 47, would shortly be taken to wife by the Dictator of Spain, General Don Miguel Primo de Rivera y Orbaneja, Marquis de Estella...
...Sever 26, 35, 36 Chemistry 33 Sever 14, 17, 18 Class. Archaeology 1b Sever 29 Class. Philology 26 Sever 30 Comp. Literature 6b Sever 2, 5, 6 Economics A Mr. Bigelow, O, Y New Lect. Hall Mr. Brown, L, P New Lect. Hall Dr. Chamberlin, B Memorial Hall Mr. de Chazeau, G. Q, Z Harvard 5 Mr. Johnson, C, H, R Memorial Hall Mr. Kreps, A, S, BB Harvard 6 Mr. Parsons, I, T Harvard 2 Mr. Stratton, D, U Memorial Hall Mr. Taylor, E, F New Lect. Hall Mr. Wernette, J, V New Lect. Hall Mr. White...