Word: paradee
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Commander Mabie cried: "Why parade the grandson of an arch traitor up the street dressed in the uniform of his grandfather with the insignia of the dishonored Confederate States on the sword and sash? . . . We try to forget the Civil War, but they still remember it in the South!"
On the brink of a quandary, the G.O.P.'s Committee on Arrangements met in Kansas City last week. Besides deciding where the Negro delegates were to be lodged and what "stunts" the parade should perform and how the convention hall should be decorated, they had a delicate question to...
Mayor Walker went to Atlanta and there met many other politicians-U. S. Senators and Representatives, the Governors of Georgia, Alabama and South Carolina. A monster parade blared along Peachtree Street. Then there were special trains to take everyone out to the foot of Stone Mountain, 18 miles from town...
A good deal of legend died last week with Frank Bartlette Willis. The red flares, whose fumes he inhaled fatally during his last triumphal political parade, belonged no more wholly to an old Ohio era than did he.
The Solution. Forget trouble and have a few parades, was Mayor Thompson's solution of the Chicago frenzy. He called together representatives of 50 improvement organizations and business clubs, explained to them his plan of a big-improvement -parade -every -other -week until Christmas. Said he: "Holding parades is...