Word: whitely
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Democrat hosts prepared to rededicate themselves anew to fairness and justice, the bustling Southern city in which they are to meet is disgraced by an unspeakable act of savagery. There is no other way to describe the performance of the eight armed white men who yanked Robert Powell, 24-year-old Negro, from a hospital cot on which he lay with a bullet in his stomach, and hanged him from a bridge just outside the city...
Many were the visitations of great and near-great at the White House last week. Some talked out against the enormous sounding board of presidential prestige. Others came and went in silence. To all President Hoover extended his even-handed hospitality...
Across the White House luncheon table Henry Ford discussed prohibition with President Hoover, then stepped in front of the White House to announce: "Prohibition is here to stay. Absolute enforcement must come. . . . Nobody wants to fly with a drunken aviator...
Editor & Mrs. George Horace Lorimer followed Mr. Ford as White House guests. Publisher & Mrs. William Randolph Hearst came next, for lunch...
...Another White House guest of the week was George Woodward Wickersham, Chairman of the new Law Enforcement Commission, who called for a preliminary talk with President Hoover...