Word: blackness
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Last week the American Bible Society estimated that last year 32,000,000 Bibles (mostly black) were sold. Churchmen wondered whether Bishop Garbett's advice might not well make for even greater sales...
Died. Edward Laurence Doheny Jr., 36, of Los Angeles, carrier of the famed "little black bag" from his father to one-time Secretary of the Interior Fall during the Elk Hills phase of the conniving that caused the oil scandals; when shot by his insane secretary, who afterward killed himself; in Los Angeles...
...House considered speculation more calmly, though Pennsylvania's Louis T. McFadden, chairman of the Banking & Currency Committee, announced that at the next session of Congress his committee proposed to go into Federal Reserve discounts, brokers' loans, investment trusts and mergers. Representative Loring Black, a smart sensationalist, attacked the Reserve Board for alleged connivance with Great Britain. He argued that if England needed gold it ought not induce the Federal Reserve to interfere with U. S. prosperity by hampering Wall Street but should sell to the U. S. some of its island possessions off the Atlantic Coast, which possessions...
...prostrate lump that was a man. Sleepily he stirred, instinctively levelled his pistol at them; accidentally it went off, nipped Marda in the hand. The girls explained they were merely out for a walk; the man snarled it was time they gave up walking-for he was a Black-&-Tan, exhausted from days of guerrilla warfare, and they were the Irish aristocracy that ignored his existence, gave tennis teas for English officers...
Last week he heard that 22 of his prints had been donated to Manhattan's Metropolitan Museum by five persons, among them Tobacco Tycoon David A. Schulte. More important, they have been accepted and will be hung in the black-and-white section among etchings and engravings...