Word: socialism
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...moonshine to suggest that a question of social equality was involved in my wife's going to a White House tea. My wife was not invited because she was white or black, Republican or Democrat. . . . She was invited because she happened to be the wife of a Congressman. . . . These Southern Democrats, these haters, are trying to stir up prejudice and help themselves politically. . . . There can be no question of social equality between races. . . . It is a matter of individual taste...
...storm of nationwide editorial comment, the Jackson (Miss.) Daily News led Southern shouters by declaring that "The De Priest incident has placed President and Mrs. Hoover beyond the pale of social recognition by Southern people." It advised them not to visit the South...
...Trotman of Suffolk, who had telegraphed Mrs. Hoover that her act had cost the Hoovercrats 25,000 votes in Virginia, resigned in protest from the executive committee when the convention only declared: "We stand for racial integrity and while official relations must be maintained, we deplore any social relationship between whites and blacks." Later, as the convention was going home, it was disturbed to hear that President Hoover had appointed as postmaster at Blenheim, Va., one Thornton Nightingale, Negro Republican...
...social welfare Daniel Guggenheim turned in 1919, when he was 63. To the welfare of aviation he turned two Junes before Lindbergh flew to Paris. His aim was to make aviation a public utility. He gave New York University $500,000 for a School of Aeronautics. Next he established his Daniel Guggenheim Fund for the Promotion of Aeronautics, with $2,500,000 endowment. The Fund has in its two and a half years given $1,200,000 to various aeronautical educational institutions for research and instruction. California and Massachusetts Institutes of Technology and Leland Stanford, Michigan and Washington Universities...
...conventional modes of employing great wealth have not appealed to Edith, daughter of John D. Rockefeller, one-time wife of Harold Fowler McCormick, lion huntress, psychoanalyst, philanthropist, social arbiter. Her method of using her money was to incorporate herself. In 1923 she organized the Edith Rockefeller McCormick Trust, capitalized with a five-million-dollar contribution from her and $1,500 apiece from Chicago realtors Edwin D. Krenn and Edward A. Dato. Last week the E. R. M. Trust announced a new financing of eleven million dollars in five year 6% gold notes, "unconditionally guaranteed as to payment of principal...