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...Revels filled an unexpired term in 1870-71. Senator Blanche K. Bruce served the full term of 1875-81. When last a Negro's voice was heard in Congress it was pleading chiefly to make lynching a Federal offence. Should Chicago's De Priest reach the House, doubtless he will take up this plea where North Carolina's White left off, although the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People last week announced that a 39-year record had been broken-no lynchings reported anywhere in the U. S. for four months...
...President Coolidge received the first "buddy poppy," inaugurating the pre-Memorial Day drive of the Veterans of Foreign Wars. . . . President Coolidge pressed a button and lit the new Lindbergh airway beacon across the continent in Los Angeles. . . . One of President Coolidge's ceremonial assistants (doubtless, James Clement Dunn of the State Department) phrased and sent a cablegram to Reza Khan Pahlevi, Shah of Persia, in which President Coolidge wished peace & prosperity to Persia on the second anniversary of Reza Khan Pahlevi's coronation. . . . Flowers from President & Mrs. Coolidge went to Mrs. Lemira Goodhue, first mother...
...name is Jimmie Walker," replied the rascal, unaware, doubtless, that this name belongs to Manhattan's clever, handsome & well-dressed mayor. By no means amused at such an impertinent coincidence, the immigration official ordered Chance Stow and Jimmie Walker to hurry back to Barbados, whence they had come...
...After an evening of gamboling, young Colt drove his auto through Fifth Avenue at 55 miles per hour. Hailed by a traffic officer, he was ordered to appear in court. When he neglected to do so, returning instead to Roxbury School, a warrant was issued for his immediate arrest. Doubtless thoroughly scared by this development, spry Samuel Colt surrendered himself to the court before the warrant had been served. A fine of $25 was imposed...
World's records mean nothing when Californians get together. Even Saturday's inclemency could not prevent three perfectly good marks from falling at the hands of the Westerners. Most renowned of sprinters, Charlie Paddock once more outdid himself, and doubtless smiled a bit as he showed the effete East why the headlines ungrammatically proclaim him as "the world's fastest human...