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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Hoover: "I have not the remotest idea, but such a suggestion is grotesque. I wonder, Mr. Chairman, if the committee is not getting down to dealing with a pretty small type of street slander...
Sound investment advice is this: Watch new industries; determine which company is going to dominate the new field; then buy as much of the common stock of that business as your nerve permits. There is always a new industry or type of business. One was foreshadowed last week when Lew Hahn, famed head of the National Retail Dry Goods Association, said: ". . . some day there may be in the field of retailing a distributing enterprise as great as the United States Steel Corporation is in the field of production...
...baked young men in alcoholic stupors congregate to indulge in petty vices. But fortunately, most sane individuals are capable of discounting such pictures of the college student, and see in these caricatures nothing more than a grotesque and rather obvious attempt at humor. This is, however, a more sinister type of publicity concerning the undergraduate which is designed to catch the eyes of scandal-loving readers by distorting any item of college news which might be made to appear sensational. The tabloid and the so-called "yellow press" find in the most insignificant events of college life a wealth...
...Canal Street victory, commemorated now by a marble shaft, put an end to the evils of Reconstruction in New Orleans, driving out the northern Republicans and their Negro tools. Major General Behan was elected Mayor of New Orleans in 1882 and, having rid his city of the Carpet-Bag type of Negro officeholder, continued to be a doughty Democrat until...
...William L. Dawson, a Negro who had run against Representative Madden in the April primary and lost by less than 12,000 votes, promised to contest Mr. De Priest's nomination in court. Up-and-coming younger Negroes said that Oscar De Priest was the oldtime Uncle Tom type, not well suited to represent the modern negro in Congress. There was, moreover, a vice-graft shadow on the De Priest record as a member of the Thompson machine, in which he had functioned as Chicago's first Negro alderman and as a Cook County commissioner...