Word: ethiopia
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...appointment of Addison E. Southard, Kentucky white man, as first U. S. Minister to Abyssinia (Ethiopia), was reported last month contemporaneously with a meeting in Washington of the Republican National Committee, upon which sits many a Negro. Last week the Pittsburgh Courier (outstanding U. S. Negro weekly) inveighed against "the eminent politicians of the Negro race" and commented sharply on Mr. Southard's appointment...
...Negro man on the street asks, wasn't some Big Negro chosen instead of Mr. Southard? Wasn't a Negro sent to Liberia as Minister?" Well, why not a Negro as Minister to Ethiopia...
Besides the fact that Addison E. Southard was well fitted for the post, having lived before at Adis Abeba (Ethiopian capital) as a U. S. consul, travelers thought they knew other reasons why a white man and not a black man had been sent to Ethiopia...
...dispute was engendered when the J. G. White Corporation of Manhattan announced that it had obtained a contract from Ras Taffari, Prince Regent of Abyssinia (otherwise known as Ethiopia) for Empress Waizeru Zauditu, to build a $20,000,000 dam across the Blue Nile at Lake Tsana...
...Into the executive offices, from the Kingdom of Ethiopia, marched Dr. C. Martin, legal adviser to Prince Regent Ras Taffari of Ethiopia, bearing a handsome shield in a brilliant red case. The President, prohibited by law from accepting gifts from foreign countries, permitted the shield to repose on his desk until its proper disposi- tion should be advised...