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...voters against the resolution were Senators Thomas Love and Julien Hyer, "Hoovercrats" who helped to turn the State Republican last year. When Senator T. J. Holbrook used the phrase "political nigger lovers" in denouncing Mrs. De Priest's visit to the White House, Senator Love rushed at him savagely, shouting: "Any man who says the 300,000 Texans who voted for Hoover are nigger-lovers has the word LIAR branded across his brow." In Florida, another Negro-subjugating state that voted for Hoover, a resolution was passed, 71 to 13, in the state house, condemning "certain social policies...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: RACES: 'Delighted | 6/24/1929 | See Source »

...friend could. After the mob had revenged itself on Friend Turner, Mrs. Turner threatened court action. For that she was strung up by the heels, her clothes drenched with gasoline, wrapped in sudden flames. She was pregnant at the time. "Mister, you ought to've heard that nigger wench howl!" When the flames went out, a man stepped up with a knife and made sure her unborn child died...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Judge Lynch | 6/24/1929 | See Source »

...Columbia; U. S. Prohibition for foreign embassies in Washington. He lives at the Washington Hotel, keeps no motor, rides the street cars. He takes no physical exercise, does not "give a damn" for society, dancing, cards. Chief conversational topics: the glories of the Old South, keeping down the "nigger." He calls spades spades and has referred, on the Senate floor, to water closets, the smell of Negroes, giving Negroes hot baths, etc., etc. He has called President Hoover a "Mussolini" and the Civil Service "the most damnable, iniquitous system ever perpetrated." Last fortnight he plumped out brazenly for the "spoils...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters: Jun. 17, 1929 | 6/17/1929 | See Source »

Offending the Negro politicians will never do, for their power at the nominating convention of 1932 may be as great as ever. But the Hoover heart beats in sincere, if muffled, sympathy with Southern white men. His instinct is to heed their wishes. He knows the sting of the "nigger lover" cry, which was raised bitterly albeit futilely against him in the campaign. In his Elizabethton, Tenn., speech, he said, by way of promise: "I believe . . . that appointive offices must be filled by those who deserve the confidence and respect of the communities they serve...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: G. O. P., South | 2/18/1929 | See Source »

...cloud of his fellows in waterspout formation pointing like a finger down to the knoll in the swamp. She was betrayed. In an agony of fear and bafflement Hagar of the massive torso and puny wit, surrendered to her fate. But suddenly a beautiful idea dawned: "A nigger killin' heself by what de white folks calls committin' suicide."?"Everybody know nigger nebber kill heself."?"Why dat is?"?" 'Cause nigger ain't worry heself dat much...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Worry | 2/11/1929 | See Source »

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