Word: blackness
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Virginia formally welcomed President Hoover as its guest and neighbor. In a field near Madison gathered 5,000 people white and black. Governor Harry Flood Byrd arrived from Richmond in U. S. Army airship C-41. The President descended from his Shenandoah National Park Camp, made a non-political speech, ate barbecue with his fingers. Declared President Hoover: "Next to prayer, fishing is the most personal relationship of man. . . . Everybody concedes that fish will not bite in the presence of the public and the press...
...Black was the Chicago reputation of Willie Doody. Police, searching for him for six months, called him a "two-gun terror," the "babyface killer." On handbills he was listed as "very dangerous." On his head, dead or alive, was a $2,000 reward. He was responsible, said Chicago police, for the hold-up of an Illinois Central train and the murder of a guard; tor the robbery of a Cicero, Ill. post office ot $18,000 and the wounding of a U. S. postal inspector; for the killing of the Chief ot Police of Berwyn...
William Loren Tallman, 23, 6 ft., black hair, blue eyes, for the murder last June of Mrs. Virginia Patty, broker's wife, found beaten to death with a brick in Tallman's apartment. Reward...
...building on Chicago's West Side. Some went on the roof while others climbed three flights of rickety stairs to a rear apartment. There they cut the wire out of a screen door, stepped into a room, found a sheepish little fellow of 25 with round pink cheeks, black hair, innocent hazel eyes. He was pulling on a pair of socks. It was Willie Doody. Tamely he surrendered, said he was "relieved" the chase was over, blamed "bad company" for his troubles...
...Turkey-Buzzards (vultures) have nearly naked heads. The heads of "bald" eagles are covered with white feathers after they are several years old, before which they are brownish black...