Word: blacks
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Outside his door newsgatherers stood ankle-deep in slushy snow, their collars turned against a winter wind zipping up the S Street hill. Moved by pity and mischief, Congressman Black of New York offered in the House a resolution to appropriate $5,000 to build the newsmen a temporary shelter...
...does not leave by the door opposite where he came in. If he did, he would find himself in the President's telephone ("Main 6") and cloakroom or, beyond that, in the Cabinet Room with its long low reddish table, set about with black leather chairs.* Instead, he marches right rear to a door letting him into another corridor. Now he must turn to the left. To the right is the way the President goes when returning to the White House (via the basement) or when going out to his posinground to be photographed...
...Giovinezza! Giovinezza!" (Youth! Youth!) has been the cry of Benito Mussolini, since the day seven years ago when his black-shirted army marched upon Rome...
Last week there strode into the flat white Department of Interior building in Washington a tall muscular man with a thick black mop of hair. His "good morning" to attendants who were just beginning to recognize him was quick, incisive. He was Dr. William John Cooper, Commissioner of Education in the U. S. Department of the Interior, succeeding tireless Dr. John James Tigert, now president of the University of Florida...
Yesterday morning a witness testified that there was in the possession of the Museum here an X-ray picture of the Louvre copy of the disputed painting. Supreme Court Justice Black, desiring to hasten the conclusion of the case, urged that an air-plane be dispatched to bring the negative to New York, where, by a comparison with Mrs. Andree Lardoux Hahn's copy, it might decide which is the original...