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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...late Senator Joseph Medill McCormick of Illinois in search of old political bones with which to frighten the city's 75,000 Negro voters out of their Republican wits. What he ghoulishly drew forth was the wraith of Chicago's great race riot of July 27-Aug. 2, 1919. This he hurled anonymously at the Senator's widow, Mrs. Ruth Hanna McCormick, now the Republican nominee for the Senate against Democrat James Hamilton Lewis...
...Oliver Moore Aug. 19 Tarboro, N.C. Hanged & Shot
...Lyman Wilbur last week got a new lease on Cabinet life. When his great & good friend President Hoover made him Secretary of the Interior, Dr. Wilbur, as president of Stanford University, was given a year's leave of absence by his trustees. That leave expired Aug. 31. Last week the Stanford Daily, undergraduate publication, editorially demanded that Dr. Wilbur resign either his Cabinet position or his college presidency...
...York job-buying judges continued the cause of citizens' disgust. To the charges against Judge George F. Ewald were added this month similar charges against Judge Amadeo A. Bertini of General Sessions Court, successor to deposed Judge Francis Xavier Mancuso (TIME, Aug. 25). One Sunday early this month Rabbi Stephen Samuel Wise, crusading civic leader, was advised by his doctor not to preach his scheduled sermon. He asked Norman Thomas, Socialist Congressional candidate and scandal-flayer, to speak for him. After Speaker Thomas had finished describing the city's condition, Rabbi Wise could contain himself no longer...
Although the antimanagement group has been popularly referred to as the Morrow faction, and although able Mr. Morrow's acquisition (TIME, Aug. 26, 1929) of United Cigar Stores gave wide publicity to the Morrow Interests, Edgar Palmer might well have been considered prime mover in the attempt to shift Ward control. Mr. Palmer is the largest individual stockholder not only in Ward but also in Continental and in General Baking. He is said to have some $15,000,000 invested in the bakery business. In 1924, when Ward Class A (voting) stock was selling between...