Word: rocked
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Tennessee, taffy-colored Arthur Mitchell continued to ride with the white passengers, enjoy the comforts he had paid for, unconcerned that these two States, like other Southern States, still have laws that require the segregation of Negro passengers on railroad trains. At Memphis the train picked up several Rock Island cars and headed into Arkansas...
...Crow car for four hours. When he reached his destination Congressman Mitchell said nothing of the incident and news of it did not leak out. Shortly after his arrival at Hot Springs he received a warm letter of welcome from Arkansas' Governor Bailey and letters from Little Rock's acting Mayor and Chamber of Commerce president, welcoming him to their city for a speech he was scheduled to make there after his stay at the spa. The facts that Chicago's Mitchell is the first Negro Democrat to sit in Congress and a New Dealer besides...
Congressman Mitchell's stay in Arkansas, darkened by this incident, ended in something of a personal triumph with his speech at Little Rock before a mixed audience to which he was introduced by U. S. District Attorney Fred A. Isgrig. But he was not ready to forget. On his return trip he rode the Jim Crow car of another railroad without being told. When he got back to Chicago, Congressman Mitchell, a lawyer himself, hired another lawyer to see what could be done about...
Last week in Cook County's Circuit Court Congressman Mitchell sued the Illinois Central, the Chicago, Rock Island & Pacific and the Pullman Co. for $50,000. Plaintiff Mitchell's description of an Arkansas Jim Crow car: ". . . The car was divided by partitions and partly used for carrying baggage, . . . poorly ventilated, filthy, filled with stench and odors emitting from the toilet and other filth, which is indescribable." His description of the language a Southern train conductor used on a member of the U. S. Congress: ". . . Too opprobrious and profane, vulgar and filthy to be spread upon the records...
What made oldtime G. O. P. bosses successful, says Charley Michelson, was "ignoring the mutterings of the Liberal group of Republicans." The same principle, he thinks, will work in the future. Only chance for a Republican comeback is to stop straddling the liberal-conservative fence, return to the "rock-ribbed citadel of oldtime, fundamental conservatism." That is why Alf Landon and John Hamilton, both tainted with Western progressivism, should be tossed overboard. The Republican National Chairman should be an emotional as well as physical resident of Manhattan, should "sit at the feet of the magnates, political and financial, and saturate...