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Four Scottish Labor members (James Maxton, J. Wheatley, the Rev. Campbell Stephen, G. Buchanan) were suspended by the Speaker of the House of Commons...
...dispute arose over a proposed reduction in the estimates for child welfare in Scotland. Maxton and Wheatley rose and accused the seconders of the motion of being murderers. They were asked to withdraw their remarks, but refused, despite the advice of J. Ramsey McDonald, Parliamentary Labor leader. They were then suspended by a vote of 258 to 70. The Rev. Campbell then took up the cry of " murderers." He was suspended by a vote of 276 to 60. Buchanan soon after heard Sir George Hamilton refer to Emanuel Shinwell as a " Jew." Shinwell said he was proud of the fact...
...this was a spiritual movement, then Jesse James belongs in the Hall of Fame as a great philanthropist. This steamship venture was a bucket- shop with a ' spiritual' veneer. Phyllis Wheatley, Frederick Douglas and the other Negro leaders after whom the ships were named must have turned in their graves...
...dignified and quiet language, two thousand Negro women of the Phyllis Wheatley Y. W. C. A. protested against a proposal to erect at the Capitol a statue to "The Black Mammy of the South." A spokesman carried the resolution to Vice President Coolidge and Speaker Gillette and begged them to use their influence against "the reminder that we come from a race of slaves...
...frontispiece in the January Century is a picture of Gounod, who contributes the first of a musical series - "Gounod in Italy and Germany." Another series is begun by Rev. Dr. Wheatley's article on "The Jews in New York." In connection with this the Jewish Question is briefly treated of by an unknown writer. The feature of the number is an article by Capt. E. S. Godfrey, one of General Custer's troop commanders, on the massacre of the Little Big Horn, "Custer's Last Battle." The author advances a new theory with regard to Custer's movements. The article...