Word: southerning
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...help Mr. Hoover, Col. Horace A. Mann of Tennessee, chief undercover Hooverizer of the South during the campaign, was established in a Miami Beach hotel to greet Southern politicians of all colors and conditions; to listen to their tales, dispel their fears, promise them nothing. Meanwhile, into the Hoover presence were ushered a few Southern gentlemen, ponderously respectable, eager to impart advice, to deplore the Negro's domination of Southern Republican politics. Infinitely patient, the President-Elect listened and listened...
...like Ohio and Illinois, where it is often crucial. The white gentlemen, exponents of the "New South," urged Mr. Hoover to buttress and continue the revolt against the "black machines" of the South, to cultivate the "lily-white" movement by which it is hoped to Republicanize permanently many a Southern Democrat whose party faith was shaken by Rum and Romanism...
Offending the Negro politicians will never do, for their power at the nominating convention of 1932 may be as great as ever. But the Hoover heart beats in sincere, if muffled, sympathy with Southern white men. His instinct is to heed their wishes. He knows the sting of the "nigger lover" cry, which was raised bitterly albeit futilely against him in the campaign. In his Elizabethton, Tenn., speech, he said, by way of promise: "I believe . . . that appointive offices must be filled by those who deserve the confidence and respect of the communities they serve...
...Long agitated by slavery, the Methodist Episcopal Church, meeting in New York in 1844, adopted a resolution prohibiting Bishop James Oswald Andrew, whose Southern wife was a slave-owner, from serving the Church as long as slaves were in his family. Indignant, Southern members withdrew, met at Louisville the next year, organized the Methodist Episcopal Church, South...
...institutions, constitute the second round of the Eastern Intercollegiate Debating League competition. Harvard won first place in this competition last year; and this season has to its credit a default by Vassar and a victory over Amherst. Men who participate in the coming contests will be eligible for the southern and western trips to be taken by the debating team...