Word: whitely
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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President Hoover last week spent four days at his White House desk and three days at his Shenandoah National Park camp. For work he held two Cabinet meetings, attended an American Legion baseball game, listened to Senator George Higgins Moses talk New England politics (see p. 16), accepted the credentials of Don Ernesto Argueto as Minister from Honduras, received Congressmen and Senators praying for appointment favors, endurance flyers, Filipino businessmen, members of the Order of Railroad Conductors...
...Lexington: "Until you make your votes felt, the white man will not respect...
...Harlem: "If your district leader is a white man, pitch him out. You have a jimmy in your votes to better conditions. Use it. Don't complain about race discrimination; change it through practical politics. When a Negro doesn't want to elect a Negro, there is either jealousy or dirty money behind...
...Harlem: "If white candidates come nosing around your district and trying to spend money for votes, take their money and beat them too. I wish some [white] people would try to spend money in my district. We'd take every cent they had and then send them to the dry cleaners...
...Lexington: "Now as to why I appoint only Negro youths to West Point and Annapolis. The black man has taken part in every war. . . . Until some white Congressman sees fit to recommend a Negro, I feel it my duty to recommend Negroes only, for through me is their only chance of gaining this opportunity...