Word: floridas
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...many Uncle Toms" was the rallying cry of the Negro who organized the Brotherhood of Sleeping Car Porters. He, Asa Philip Randolph, a high-headed Florida man, mental product of Jacksonville's Cookman Institute and of City College of New York, editor of The Messenger, a Socialist in politics, undertook the promotion of the Pullman Porter as a matter of racial pride. He told the Pullman Company's employes that they were guilty of slave psychology in continuing to make berths, shine shoes, lug luggage and be called "George," for the wages the Pullman Company paid. He said...
...Florida is said to be "modernized" politically. Wealthy Republicans from the North have changed many things. But last week, Florida's Democrats demonstrated that they, at least, have not changed. Governor John W. Martin competed for the Senate seat of Park Trammel, comrade...
Like Mark Hanna's daughter in Illinois (Mrs. Medill McCormick), William Jennings Bryan's daughter in Florida seemed virtually assured of election to the House. There, the two Daughters would swell the "women's bloc...
...unaccredited delegates-whose contested credentials were being considered last week by G. O. P. officials in Kansas City-there were 73. These came from Louisiana (12), Mississippi (12), Texas (26, or all the delegates), Florida (9 of the 10 delegates), Porto Rico (2), Georgia (3), South Carolina (4), Tennessee...
...Florida 10 Ohio...