Word: matter
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...organized the Brotherhood of Sleeping Car Porters. He, Asa Philip Randolph, a high-headed Florida man, mental product of Jacksonville's Cookman Institute and of City College of New York, editor of The Messenger, a Socialist in politics, undertook the promotion of the Pullman Porter as a matter of racial pride. He told the Pullman Company's employes that they were guilty of slave psychology in continuing to make berths, shine shoes, lug luggage and be called "George," for the wages the Pullman Company paid. He said they should decline tips and make the company pay the difference...
Grand Sachem Voorhis guessed that delegates to the Democratic convention of 1924 in Manhattan had learned "that the Tammany Tiger was not nearly the vicious animal some of them had supposed. The animal, as a matter of fact, has had one black eye during all its life and only...
...were not above working with Tammany. John Jacob Astor vouched for Tweed in a crisis, and escaped three years' taxes. Elihu Root was one of Tweed's lawyers. Many another good name is connected with many another bad moment in New York City's government. No matter how well the present Tammany-ites behave themselves at Houston-and last week they said they were not even going to take a brass band-many a bad moment will doubtless soon be rehearsed by Republicans from the high-colored history of Tammany currently published by the biographer...
Therefore, since the Council cannot act in matters of state if there be even one dissenting vote, the proceedings came to an abrupt, ridiculous halt. Quick to relieve the tension, however, was Sir Austen Chamberlain. "I will introduce," said he sonorously, "a motion which is clearly a matter of procedure, and hence needs only a majority, namely, that the Council put the question of Polish-Lithuanian relations on the agenda of the September session...
...Transylvania for lands expropriated by Rumania (TIME, Sept. 26) came up again, last week, the Council passed a resolution informing the disputants that, while the good offices of the League are still at their disposal, it is the opinion of the Council, after five years of investigation, that the matter should now be settled by direct negotiations between Rumania and Hungary. When informed of this decision by telephone, Prime Minister Count Bethlen of Hungary barked back over the long distance wire, "The League once more has proved its utter impotency...