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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...have got one side in earnest out here and have had for a long while. I respect the courage of these fellows; but the trouble is, a lot of those on my side have been lying down, trying to preach something to please everybody...
Alfred E. Smith of New York. "After dinner, in the study with the men, Al Smith was at his best. He is a great actor; not a heel comedian like Willie Collier, who stands in one spot and gets his effect, but an all-over-the-lot acrobatic performer like Douglas Fairbanks. He gets out on the floor and acts out his scenes, puts his hands on the arms of your chair, shakes his fist at an imaginary enemy, and sinks into exhausted laughter at the end of his own story. His best ones were about prohibition...
...CRIMSON in that year reveal the great amount of hostility that was created by this lack of unanimity. The Chairman of the Independent Democratic forces, supporting Cleveland and Hendricks, appealed to the class of 1885 to join the Democratic ranks because Massachusetts Institute of Technology had thrown in their lot on the side of the Democrats, a fact which was untrue. An angry Republican immediately wrote the CRIMSON and said, "Now it may be asked if Harvard can, in respect to itself, turn out with a party which takes such shady methods to secure our presence in its ranks...
...since that time the elements that comprize the new stage have been slowly crystalizing. So long as the negro remained in the South, traditional submission to the status quo delayed any acute outcropping of racial ill feeling. But the World War uprooted the negro's traditional attitude toward his lot, and the exodus to the North began. Coming in even greater numbers to new homes in a new clime, the negro finds his absolute position better than before, but his relative position worse. The ties that held him in the South are cut asunder. His inferiority complex is cast...
...haven't been going to the polls and why haven't you? It is because the cowardly politicians, at least on one side, and that is on my side of it, haven't been giving you an issue. There have been a lot of fellows on the other side giving you an issue. I don't agree with them, but I respect their courage...