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Word: 93rd (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1920-1929
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That fatal morning was not yet over. At 11:35 in the basement of the Cleveland Clinic, at 93rd Street and Euclid Avenue, Cleveland, a stock of X-ray films exploded. At that hour there were 234 people in the building. Within 15 minutes about 100 of them were dead, with many more dying...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: Cleveland Clinic | 5/27/1929 | See Source »

...Passed a bill providing $30,000 to erect a monument in France to the 93rd (Negro) Division of the A. E. F. (Bill went to Senate...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CONGRESS: The Legislative Week May 10, 1926 | 5/10/1926 | See Source »

...last week a bill appeared in the House to authorize a $30,000 memorial to the 93rd Division (Colored) in France. Representative Hamilton Fish of New York (onetime officer of the 93rd Division) was its sponsor. Representative John Philip Hill of Maryland a member of the Battle Monuments Commission urged that it was unwise for the House to begin designating specific monuments. The Democrats in general joined him (a Republican) in opposition, protesting that they were not raising a race question, but supporting a principle. But the House, in acting mood, could not be deterred, passed the bill...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: NEGROES: Honor from Congress | 5/10/1926 | See Source »

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