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...White House 150 representatives of the "Republican Joint National Planning Committee to Get out the Negro Vote," spread them out on the south lawn. President Hoover appeared on the White House portico. "Oh, Mr. President." declared Roscoe Conkling Simmons, "distress has overtaken us. We come to you in our heaviest hour. Some few have gone so far as to say you do not believe in human equality. We have been told our party has deserted the old faith. Speak. Mr. President, speak!" An emotional murmur ran through the black crowd. President Hoover spoke: "The friendship of our part...
That King George and Queen Mary have put their eldest son under heaviest pressure to marry, even doing over Marlborough House at a cost of many thousand pounds to receive the Empire's bride (TIME, Nov. 4, 1929), all England knows...
Trading on the New York Cotton Exchange, the other big futures market, was the heaviest in two years. Even on the spot exchanges in many towns & cities of the South the cotton boom brought wild trading. Atlanta reported more buying orders handled in the last two weeks than in the previous six months. From Mobile, Memphis, Little Rock, Dallas, Galveston the exuberance spread through the highways & byways out into the hot, rich fields of ripening cotton. Most of this year's crop is still to be picked. Profits from the rally will go into the pockets of all growers from...
...Hoover" campaign. A Raskobite, he was eclipsed by the rise of the Roosevelt candidacy, denied the permanent chairmanship of the Chicago convention (TIME, July 4 & n). Politically jobless under the Democratic regime of Chairman Farley, he was really put into his 'new berth last week by Mr. Raskob, heaviest individual A. A. P. A. contributor...
This did not square with the fact that Manhattan's Stock Exchange - which boomed at news of the Hoover Moratorium last year - drifted fractionally lower last week. In Germany, with a General Election set for July 31 and with Hitlerites slated to make heaviest gains, the Hitlerites blatantly repudiated the Lausanne settlement last week, perhaps for electioneering purposes...