Word: rulers
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...wishing to be derided, the Committee of Five left out the deserts, offered to Ethiopia's dusky but non-Negro ruler and to Il Duce only what the Negroes of Liberia have refused...
...soon installed as ruler, takes the actress as his queen, attempts to govern, and is summarily robbed of the fruits of his superiority when they are rescued by an airplane. The remainder of the show is irrelevant and rather tedious...
Franklin Roosevelt is deeply indebted to one great big Elk, James Aloysius Farley, for engineering his election to the Presidency. Last week he warmly welcomed to the White House a whole troupe of great big Elks headed by their Grand Exalted Ruler. But the Elks in the President's office were not of Elk Farley's herd...
...Jurisdictions, so the Benevolent Protective Order of Elks has its black copy in the Improved Benevolent Protective Order of Elks of the World.* Guffaws of bass laughter rocked the President's office as he cracked jokes with the chieftains of IBPOEW and received from Grand Exalted Ruler James Finley Wilson, the "Little Napoleon of Negro Elkdom," an invitation to review a parade in Washington on Aug. 27, during the IBPOEW convention. Joining with Grand Exalted Ruler Wilson in pressing the invitation were Grand Commissioner of Athletics John Thomas Rhine, Washington's leading Negro undertaker; Grand Esteemed Loyal Knight...
Instantly the President accepted the IBPOEW's invitation, provided he was still in Washington on Aug. 27. Ruler Wilson expected nothing less, for all his life prominent men have been his familiars. At 13 he was a bellhop in Chicago's Palmer House. For four years he was a Pullman porter on the Missouri Pacific. "Buffalo Bill" Cody set him up driving a stagecoach in Nebraska. He was a member of the distinguished horde of gold hunters in the Klondike. Tex Rickard, who used to call him "Little Britches," took him on as a business partner...