Word: whitely
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Priest musicale invitation, warned the Negro congressman: "You are now embarking on a perilous course which will, if you continue, disturb relations which have long been amicably settled in the South." Democratic Representative Robert Alexis Green, wearer of flowing Windsor ties, announced that he would never again attend a White House function as long as the Hoovers were there. On the floor of the Senate, South Carolina's Senator Blease, coarsely harangued Mrs. Hoover, had the clerk read into the Congressional Record a vulgar doggerel, concluding...
There is trouble in the White House...
...Pittsburgh Courier (Negro weekly) sneering at Southern solicitude for racial purity, stated: "Everyone knows that the percentage of white blood flowing in the veins of Mr. and Mrs. De Priest is due to the direct violation of Negro womanhood by avaricious Southern white men, who should have remembered in the heat of their unbridled illicit intercourse that Mother Nature does not know how to discriminate in the production of offspring." Pointing squarely at the politicians who fanned the fire, the Courier predicted: "In 1932 they will be parading Mrs. De Priest's photograph to keep the South solid, Democratic...
...Collided with the race issue as the result of specific demands for a denunciation of Mrs. Hoover's White House reception of Mrs. Oscar De Priest, wife of Illinois' Negro Congressman. I. C. Trotman of Suffolk, who had telegraphed Mrs. Hoover that her act had cost the Hoovercrats 25,000 votes in Virginia, resigned in protest from the executive committee when the convention only declared: "We stand for racial integrity and while official relations must be maintained, we deplore any social relationship between whites and blacks." Later, as the convention was going home, it was disturbed to hear that President...
...Last fortnight he thought he was going to move to Washington to sit in the House of Representatives. Last week he did find himself in Washington, sitting not at the Capitol in a mere Representative's seat but up in the Hoover sub-Cabinet. Helping hands at the White House had straightened out a bad political mess in his favor...