Life — July 12, 1929 — page 9: what you’re looking at

What you’re looking at

# Life Magazine Page Analysis This page is primarily **advertising for Manoir Richelieu**, a Canadian resort hotel opening June 15th at Murray Bay, Quebec. The top portion contains a "Life in Washington" column discussing Congressional controversy. The column describes a racial incident where Mrs. Hoover invited a Black Congressman's wife to tea, prompting segregationist Southern senators—including Cole Blease—to enter racist poetry into the Congressional record opposing "Negroes in the White House." The piece satirizes this overreaction, noting the irony that giving Black voters political eligibility shouldn't require denying them "formal courtesies of official life." The column also mocks President Hoover for attacking Wall Street while facing Prohibition enforcement questions, and discusses a fabricated fishing anecdote about the Presidential Fishing Secretary. The page is otherwise dominated by the resort advertisement.