Word: suiting
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Orleans, a suit has been filed in the Federal District Court to oust Walter L. Cohen, Collector of Customs of the Port of New Orleans. Mr. Cohen is a Negro, and the petition, filed by Edwin H. Both of Washington, D. C, and Carl E. McHenry of New Orleans, alleges that he obtained his appointment in the U. S. revenue service by subscribing to an oath that he was a citizen of the U. S. when, as a matter of fact, he was "of African descent and, therefore, incapable of becoming a citizen of the United States." The basis...
...validity of the 14th Amendment has frequently been discussed as an academic question. This suit, however, marks the first time it has ever been before the courts. Said The New York Tribune: ". . . an engaging attempt at nothing less than the juristic revision of the Civil War. . . . The confidence of these two Southern gentlemen in the Supreme Court is monumental. Not even Mr. LaFollette ever charged that it could remake history...
With the decadence of classical learning, Greek-letter fraternities at Harvard are fast going out of fashion. Last year the Falcon Club changed its name from Lambda Chi Alpha to its present name. Alpha Phi Sigma is following suit, and has given itself a thoroughly English name, the Trident Club. In changing its name, the Trident Club is making no attempt to change its status...
...reporter's inquiry was inspired by the recent attack made on the validity of the 14th amendment and the attempt to prohibit negroes from voting. The suit is about to be brought in the name of H. E. Bolte, an attorney of Washington, D. C. Mr. Bolte claims that Walter L. Cohen, negro controller of customs of the the port of New Orleans, "falsely alleged himself to be a citizen of the United States" when he took the oath of office. It goes on to say that he is a "person of African blood and descent", and that when...
Across the Missouri, opposite, in Kansas City, Kan., William Allen White hopped off a train wearing his light gray felt hat, his natty gray suit and his bow tie?awry, as usual...