Word: mr
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...mention all this only in order to show that your view, Mr. Roosevelt, although undoubtedly deserving of all honor, finds no confirmation in the history either of your own country or of the rest of the world...
...Mr. Bilbo thus returned to a favorite theme and revived an idea older than the U. S. itself. By subsidizing a Negro exodus to Africa, he maintained, the U. S. would rid its whites of a depressed and depressing race, save itself from racial "amalgamation...
...this separation," droned little Mr. Bilbo, "the blood stream of the white race shall remain uncontaminated and all the . . . blessings of the white man's civilization shall forever remain the priceless possession of the Anglo-Saxon. . . . There is an overmastering impulse, a divine afflatus among the mass of the Negroes of the U. S. for a country of their...
Listening in the Senate gallery was Mrs. Mittie Maude Lena Gordon, a portly mulatto from Chicago. Mrs. Gordon raises her cream-coffee arms, shouts to her audiences: "There's amalgamation for you! See what it does to us!" Most of the "signatures" on Mr. Bilbo's petition were gathered from 45 States by her Peace Movement of Ethiopia, a repatriationist cult which has its headquarters at her apartment on Chicago's South Side. Bales of letters, cards, X-ed scraps of paper are stacked in every cranny, and more still pour in. Last week some...
...editor of the San Francisco Chronicle thought and said that Jack Neylan must be pulling legs. So Mr. Neylan wrote a letter which clearly established the Neylan Plan as a perfectly serious though startling proposal, reminiscent in its visionary aspect of Henry Ford's high-minded Peace Ship effort of 23 years...