Word: backings
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...went back into the corn when I saw the man with the gun and hid a while. Then I walked along toward the woods. When I got there I found my brother and Helen lying on the ground...
Last week Oscar De Priest crossed back to the North, addressed another large Negro audience in Harlem, "capital of Black America." The theme of each speech was the same: the Negro's use of his political power to attain his constitutional rights. The De Priest treatment of that theme South and North was different. Comparisons...
...plumbing. Last fortnight the Federal Power Commission, through its Solicitor Charles A. Russell, ordered power companies seeking U. S. licenses to construct plants along navigable U. S. streams, to exercise the same care and precision in estimating their construction costs. Reason: the U. S. has an option to buy back such licensed plants after 50 years and it refuses to pay an excessive price for them. The Russell ruling is designed to squeeze "water," estimated at some $500,000,000 out of the capitalization of water power companies now seeking U. S. licenses. Ruled Solicitor Russell: "A reading...
...Then I started running toward home. On the way I met Helen's mother. I told her 'Hurry up, Helen's shot.' So she and Helen's grandmother went back with me and picked up Helen and Johnny on their backs and carried them home. Then I went and told my mother...
Johnny Kolesar died instantly, his back riddled with a load of No. 4 shot. Joe Klementovich was taken to a hospital, apparently dying. He was ten years old. Helen Klementovich's wounds were less dangerous. Police soon seized Farmer Craig Hoffman, identified by Anna Kolesar as "the man in brown pants." He denied shooting the children. In his house was found a ten-gauge shot-gun.* Police, fearing a lynching, dispersed muttering crowds, locked up Farmer Craig, charged him with murder, assault with intent to kill, atrocious assault and battery...