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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...absent), Chief Justice Hughes all followed Franklin Roosevelt in handshaking General Somoza & wife at the station. The artillery banged a 21-gun salute. With 15 tanks in front, 15 behind, the Presidential car led a parade up to the Capitol, around its plaza, down Pennsylvania Avenue to the White House. Franklin Roosevelt had assured the presence of throngs by having all Federal employes excused from work from 11 a.m. to 1 p. m. Military strictness prevailed. Officers wore their medals & decorations. The only two pressmen (one reporter, one cameraman) permitted in the parade had to wear Army uniforms (sergeants...
...Representative Harold Knutson, Minnesota Republican, caused Majority Leader Sam Rayburn deep pain with the following "unfortunate" remarks about Franklin Roosevelt's reception for President Somoza of Nicaragua (see p. 15): "Heading the parade was a White House limousine bearing that great democrat, Franklin Delano Roosevelt, and the stern dictator from Nicaragua, sitting side by side carrying on an amiable conversation. . . . Overhead droned hundreds of aircraft, burning the taxpayers' money...
...Miami's ramshackle, malodorous Negro section on the city's east side. They stirred up such interest in the commission primary that election officials provided two extra, segregated voting machines in the chief Negro polling place, the fifth precinct fire station. Evening before primary day, certain white citizens took other precautions...
After dark, a parade of 75 automobiles, their license plates shrouded, drove through the Negro district. In the cars rode white-hooded figures, distributing threats lettered in red, twirling a suggestive hangman's noose. At 25 street corners the Ku-Kluxers paused to plant and ignite fiery crosses. From a pole they hung a black effigy labeled: "This nigger voted...
Night of the parade, policemen were conspicuously absent from the Negro section. But on primary day, spurred by Police Chief H. Leslie Quigg who was spurred by publicity, police dispersed ominous knots of white men near the polling places. Before the polls closed, more than 1,000 Negroes cast ballots, mostly for the reform candidates. By City Clerk Frank J. Kelly's estimate, this was 20 times more than in any previous Miami election. Incidental result of the primary: the reform administration elected a complete city council...