Word: treatment
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Mason & Dixon line between Pennsylvania and Maryland (and its westward extension under the Missouri Compromise of 1820) once divided free States from slave. It still divides the North from the South on Negro treatment. Last fortnight portly, grey-wooled Oscar De Priest crossed it for the first time since he took his seat as the only Negro Congressman (from Illinois). He addressed 5,000 blacks at the Lexington (Ky.) Colored Fair...
Last week Oscar De Priest crossed back to the North, addressed another large Negro audience in Harlem, "capital of Black America." The theme of each speech was the same: the Negro's use of his political power to attain his constitutional rights. The De Priest treatment of that theme South and North was different. Comparisons...
...TIME, Aug. 12. The one having to do with Street Girl would have kept me away from that picture. The one about The Single Standard would have fortified me in my hour of waiting to get into the Capitol to see it. The two pictures merited just the opposite treatment. Street Girl was splendid entertainment, the acting capable and mature. The other could fix the attention only of one who had never been places, who was attracted by the liquefaction of Garbo's garments. I felt like a chump for standing as aforesaid. ROBERT EMMET CONNOLLEY New York City...
...Significance. Author Leonard's approach to Steinmetz, though factual, is tinged with hysterical admiration, the breathlessness of the new esthetic Science. It is sharply "written down" to the reader's level, contains much carping over the Steinmetz Socialism. Subject, not treatment, makes this biography outstanding...
...five-year term Editor Harris wrote: "Mule Hicks, an ignorant 17-year-old Negro, stole a mule worth less than $100. He was sentenced to serve twenty years at hard labor. After serving twelve years he was still in the chain gang, and as a result of his treatment attempted to escape. He was convicted of murder and sentenced to hang, although not a witness saw the killing. Mule Hicks is a Negro. Who cares...