Word: 16th
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Negroes venerate especially: the Martyrs of Uganda; St. Benedict the Moor, 16th Century slaveborn monk; and St. Peter Claver, S. J., famed for his work in the early slave markets in Cartagena...
...American Federation of Teachers, at its 16th annual convention in Chicago last week, is no consultative professional body like the National Education Association. It is simply a federation of teachers' guilds. For its president it re-elected Dr. Henry Linville, president of the New York Teachers' Union. Should it wish to it could, unlike N. E. A., strike for anything it demanded. It could even become actively affiliated with the American Federation of Labor, as last week in Chicago it was urged to do. The A. F. of T. did not join but listened in approval while...
Cruickshank, two couples ahead of Sarazen, hit his shots with almost resentful determination. On the 16th, he missed an 8-ft. putt and needed two pars for his 68. He got them smoothly on the next two holes. Then he walked briskly through the gallery that was waiting to see Sarazen finish and joined Perkins in the locker-room...
...easier but it was still hard to believe that he would win. It became less difficult with every hole. Sarazen had pars for the first five holes of the second nine, a birdie 3 on the hard 15th. When he missed his putt for a 4 on the long 16th Sarazen, unlike Bobby Cruickshank, smiled. He needed only two more pars for a 66. Sixty-six would be a record round for a U. S. Open. It would give him a winning total of 286 and tie Chick Evans' U. S. Open record made at Minikahda...
...plank meant constitutionally was obvious. A Republican Congress was to propose to the States another amendment, not specifically repealing the 18th Amendment but superseding it exactly as the 17th Amendment for the direct election of Senators superseded the constitutional provision for their selection by State Legislatures; exactly as the 16th Amendment for an income tax superseded the constitutional limitation of direct taxes based on population. The new amendment would have to provide that States that wanted to be Wet might be Wet, regardless of the 18th Amendment, but would prohibit them from legalizing the saloon. Therefore a Wet State would...