Word: southerning
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...North will be sorry they didn't try the same cure for certain things that the Negro knows will cost him his life-the white man is subject to the same law. I would love to meet the author of this article and show him that Southern people are not "crackers," but a Negro is a nigger and always will be one regardless of the Hoovers. No doubt the present President will have more to do with the killing of Negroes in the South, who arc trying to climb the social ladder, than all the crimes that the Negro...
With a congress of men of the type of Senator W. F. George of Georgia, the Constitution will be amended so as to cure the 65-year old wrong done the Southern people. The way should be opened to State legislation against the Negro. There is no longer excuse for evasion...
Said Chicago's Republican Tribune: "If Mrs. Hoover's Southern tea party has driven the Southern fanatics away from union with Northern fanatics, it has been the best use of tea since the night it was thrown into Boston Harbor...
...Pittsburgh Courier (Negro weekly) sneering at Southern solicitude for racial purity, stated: "Everyone knows that the percentage of white blood flowing in the veins of Mr. and Mrs. De Priest is due to the direct violation of Negro womanhood by avaricious Southern white men, who should have remembered in the heat of their unbridled illicit intercourse that Mother Nature does not know how to discriminate in the production of offspring." Pointing squarely at the politicians who fanned the fire, the Courier predicted: "In 1932 they will be parading Mrs. De Priest's photograph to keep the South solid, Democratic...
Author Bedel has a droll vivacity all his own. When his Bolivian Planter Cortes, newly rich, buys up the old estate of Fontecreuse in Touraine (southern France ?the Contes Drolatiques country), he installs an elevator, removes a Gobelin tapestry which interferes with the acoustics of his Negro saxophonist, and engages a Russian Count to preside over his kitchen. The Count is Molinoff, a person of glamor. Molinoff forgets he is cook, remembers only he is count. He spends a few stolen hours every day with Anne and Françoise, young daughters of a neighboring poor-but-proud royalist family...