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Dates: during 1920-1929
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This letter is to report an incident which happened in this town not long ago of a woman whose telephone rang at three o'clock in the morning. She fell down stairs and broke her leg. Another member of the family answered the telephone and was informed that the party had the wrong number. This woman did not thank the telephone operator...
...Sheppard, Alabama's Heflin, Mississippi's Harrison, "deplored" the event, viewed it as a "recognition of social equality," warned of "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...
...movement was launched by the New York Telegram to accord Hero Young a hero's welcome. It was accurately pointed out that his achievements at Paris were far more significant than arrivals of visiting royalty, trans-Atlantic flyers, Channel swimmers. Behind the proposal the City Government, long habituated to receiving great personages amid blazing publicity, squarely placed itself. A welcoming commission, including Alfred Emanuel Smith, John Jacob Raskob, Bernard Mannes Baruch, Banker Charles Edwin Mitchell, Railroader Patrick Crowley et al. was duly named. Students of public psychology waited to see what pitch of enthusiasm could be aroused...
...persuade its statesmen to words or deeds not originally their own. The Lawson idea thus combined pedagogy with journalism. As executed by its chief agent, Pundit Bell, the Lawson idea has often raised resentment in the breasts of other, more shirtsleeve newsmen. From his contacts with statesmen, Pundit Bell long ago contracted the habit of talking like one. Where a few journalists are gathered together, he unconsciously addresses them as an oracle from some other world. There is something obnoxious to workaday correspondents about a man who conceives the Press to have more than the communicative function. A Bell feat...
...this feeling that he goes to the trouble of bringing his family back to Cambridge. Just so long as it is present beneath all the superficial glamor and excitement, attendant on his return, the class reunions will remain vital and justified. On the other hand when the time comes when it is the glamor that affords the attraction, and the glamor alone, then the critic will be justified in demanding the abolition of an outworn tradition...