Word: recordings
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...attention has been called to an item which appeared in your issue of April 23, with reference to Senator Hubert D. Stephens of Mississippi. Knowing as little about your magazine as you do about Senator Stephens and his record, I shall make no gratuitous remarks about...
...date of April 24, concerning Senator Stephens. The editorial is written by one of the most brilliant writers in Mississippi-a man who is a recent-comer to the South and who is regarded as the most independent editor in the State. He has had occasion to study the record of Senator Stephens and to know whereof he speaks. A closer study than you have given the Senator's record will convince you of your unfairness in passing upon his record...
What would next happen to the bill, upon which many a farmer's heart is set, remained a political uncertainty. President Coolidge stayed on record against the equalization fee (and Secretary Hoover, in a telegram to Indiana farmers, joined him). The McNary-Haugenites, on the other hand, talked of gathering a two-thirds majority in Congress and relieving the farmer in their own way, another Coolidge veto notwithstanding...
Southerners took what counsel and comfort they could from Major General Behan's record, in the face of a situation in the North over which they had much concern but no control. For the first time in 27 years, a Negro was going to Congress. In Chicago, Mayor William Hale ("Big Bill") Thompson directed the selection of one of his Negro ward bosses, a large, greying "race man" of somewhat Thompsonian demeanor, to succeed the late Martin Barnaby Madden as the Republican nominee for U. S. Representative from Chicago's largely Negroid First District...
...aggregation has displayed remarkable batting and scoring power in mowing down all opposition to date and hanging up an impressive record of five straight victories; it should experience little difficulty in disposing of the invaders from Hanover this afternoon...