Word: speaker
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...House end of the Capitol were Speaker Longworth's pink face and chubby smile...
...Speaker: "There's a lady present...
Thurgood Marshall, the first negative speaker, introduced the definition of "intermixing" as "intimate and indiscriminate association." Such intermixing produces descendants neither colored nor white, frequently ostracized by both, he went on to say. "The family unit is destroyed, and all genuine society suffers. All intermixing in times of slavery was illegal intermixing. Perhaps some one in the audience would make this legal. But did Prohibition purge John Barleycorn...
...Hill, the last negative speaker, showed the harshness of southern states toward the negro. In Alabama the penalty for "intermarriage or intermixture" is imprisonment for from two to seven years. "And the affirmative maintains that intermixing is desirable, when a lynching awaits such a marriage!" he said. "According to the constitutions of five southern states, a man with one-eighth negro blood is a negro...
...meeting was begun last night with some musical entertainment by F. R. G. Giddens '29 and R. M. Whittemore '31. Captain A. E. French '29 was the first speaker of the evening. "Eddie" O'Brien, noted football referee, gave a talk on football from an official's point of view. O'Brien has been officiating for over two decades...