Word: lating
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...manner in which Leader Watson led the Senate brought down upon that body a volley of editorial abuse. It was accused of perversity and pique. The Press harped upon uncomplimentary comparisons: the late great Henry Cabot Lodge would never have permitted such legislative chaos; Charles Curtis had steered a far straighter course...
...Representative from Illinois. Mrs. De Priest's husband is the first Negro to sit in Congress since 1900. She was the first U. S. member of their race to be entertained in the White House proper since Oct. 18, 1901, when President Roosevelt had the late Booker T. Washington at his luncheon table.* After that occasion there was such a socio-political commotion that President Roosevelt thought it best to explain that Booker T. Washington had called while the President was just finishing his lunch and had been invited into the dining room "to save time." No such aftermath...
...infinite danger to our white civilization." In Maryland, a Negro-problem State which voted for Hoover in 1928, the leading daily (Baltimore Sun, Democratic) carried a long front page story in which Correspondent J. Fred Essary took pains to mention that Mrs. De Priest had arrived early, stayed late, enjoyed herself hugely; and that Congressman De Priest differed greatly from William H. Lewis of Boston, the Negro Taft-time Assistant Attorney-General, who invariably declined invitations to the functions of white Washington officialdom. In Texas, a Negro-subjugating State which voted for Hoover in 1928, the one woman...
Quick to his feet rose New York's short, swart Congressman La Guardia. The La Guardia corpuscles, and many a La Guardia constituent, are Latin. Mr. La Guardia arose to defend the fame of that late great Latin, Christopher Columbus. "The House,'' he cried, "ought not to attempt to write history." While expressing 'the greatest admiration and love and affection for the people of Iceland." he clung to the "tangible historical record of the discovery by Columbus...
...Harvard Studentship at Cambridge was held this year by Thomas Hopkinson Eliot, '28, grandson of the late President Eliot, prominent in undergraduate activities during the years 1924-28. The scholarship was founded in honor of Lionel de Jersey Harvard, a direct descendant of the founder of the University, who graduated from Harvard in 1915 and was killed while fighting for his country, England, during...