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Word: repatriationist (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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...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 300 of her followers, who mostly are on Relief (as is she), arrived...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: RACES: Mr. Bilbo's Afflatus | 5/8/1939 | See Source »

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