Word: marylanders
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...accepted renomination at Philadelphia two months ago, he has studiously refrained from all political activity. Nevertheless, he was at pains to give White House correspondents the slip one afternoon last week and, on pretext of visiting his ailing Secretary of War at Walter Reed Hospital, motored 20 miles into Maryland to Oxon Hill Manor, country house of Assistant Secretary of State Sumner Welles. There the President conferred with some 30 local Democrats, including Maryland's Senator Radcliffe, Baltimore's Mayor Jackson, National Committeeman Howard Bruce. When the Baltimore Sun discovered this privy excursion, newshawks rushed to the White...
Representative Marion Anthony Zioncheck of Washington, whose besotted escapades ended in a Maryland asylum last June, last week made headlines in the U. S. for the last time...
...emotion aside, the principal reason for this unparalleled political excitement over Negroes was mathematical. Outside the South, Oklahoma and Maryland, there are only nine States which have more than 100,000 Negro inhabitants. In Missouri, Illinois, Indiana, Ohio, Michigan, West Virginia, Pennsylvania, New Jersey and New York live some 2,500,000 Negroes, of whom over 1,000,000 are prospective voters this year. Moreover, in these same nine States the Roosevelt-Landon battle will be waged especially hard, with the result in each perhaps turning in favor of the party which can bag the largest Black vote...
While the Shah of Iran continued to smolder over the "Elkton Outrage" committed by two Maryland constables last year, other Marylanders were pleasantly amused last week by the doings of Egyptian Minister Mohamed Amine Youssef Bey and Soviet Ambassador Comrade Alexander Antonovich Troyanovsky at Bay Ridge beach on the Chesapeake...
...prime grievance of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People is the fact that all but one of the 17 Southern States exclude Negroes from their Universities. Year ago, as a test case, NAACP brought crusty University of Maryland into Maryland's Court of Appeals, succeeded in breaking its 128-year-old bar against Negroes. Last fortnight NAACP and Negro Lloyd Gaines marched into Circuit Court at Columbia, Mo. to see whether University of Missouri, lily-white since its opening in 1841, could be likewise forced across the color line...