Word: northerns
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Thus closed the first of Franklin Roosevelt's major "Purge" primaries, on a note seemingly far removed from national issues. But by his "white supremacy" speeches Senator Smith reminded Southern Democrats of Franklin Roosevelt's fondness for Northern Negroes, his tacit approval of the Anti-Lynching bill. And the red shirts worn that night were in celebration of another repulse of the carpetbaggers. Instead of being purged...
...Northern Negroes, settling in large cities, rarely know a brassie from a mashie until they have become prosperous enough to enjoy the game as a pastime. But in the South, where country clubs use Negro caddies in great numbers, many moppets learn the fundamentals of golf along with their ABCs...
...traditions older than four U. S. wars looks down on the Capitol and the Washington Monument. On its list of old boys, living and dead, is many a name prefixed by Robert Edward Lee, many another famed old Southern name: Pinckney, Stuart, Randolph, Bryan, Cocke, Fairfax, Carter, Kinsolving. When Northern troops occupied the school buildings in the Civil War, virtually all the 75 students were away fighting in the Confederate Army, and 61 were killed. In the World War, 461 old Episcopal High School boys took part as soldiers, one as the nation's Secretary of War, Newton...
...District Attorney Lawrence Sabyllia Camp, the Roosevelt candidate set up to purge Senator George, attacks his adversary as a tool of Georgia's utility and railroad companies, a stooge of northern Republicans. Last week this last charge was made more awful when James W. Arnold. Republican National Committeeman from Georgia, urged all Georgia Republicans to jump into the Democratic primary for Senator George and "save this country." There is no Republican candidate for the Senate this year, and 36.942 Republicans (12% of the electorate) voted in Georgia...
Last week, back from his annual trip to Scandinavia where Scott buys much of its wood pulp, President McCabe told of his amazement when a Finnish pulp man in a small northern town asked him : "Do you believe Jimmy Roosevelt is making as much money out of his insurance business as the Saturday Evening Post says...