Word: chain
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...whites. "Whilst the white man keeps on thinking that his civilization is slowly conquering peoples and countries for him, and actually, even quite recently, new blobs of color on the political map do signify that new colonial empires are being founded in Africa, the real truth is that the chain of the colored world has for the past hundred years been visibly closing...
Massachusetts' Governor Charles Francis Hurley last July refused to extradite an escaped Georgia chain-gang convict who had been caught running a Boston lottery. He added insult to injury by giving as his reason that Georgia's prison system was inhumane. Georgia's Governor Eureth Dickinson Rivers last week had his chance for revenge. Lawyers for a Negro barber named Fleming ("Sing") Willis, who had served less than a month of a ten months' sentence for operating an Atlanta lottery, applied for a parole: "Applicant feels that the attitude of Governor Hurley of Massachusetts towards those...
...applications for six more paroles on the same conditions, two from burglars and four from life-term murderers, it gave him a chance to continue in the same vein: ". . . Governor Hurley may have solved our prison problem for us. . . . We may not have to keep anyone in our chain gangs under the conditions he [Hurley] complained about." Informed that chain-gang camps had been placarded with signs saying, "Spend your holiday in Cape Cod," Governor Rivers grinned. He announced that July 27-the day Governor Hurley refused to extradite the escaped convict-would henceforth be "Hurley Day" in Georgia prisons...
...Senate, and when he died in 1912 Wingfield was appointed to succeed him. He declined the job. Unlike John Mackay, George Hearst, William S. O'Brien, who also made fortunes in Nevada. George Wingfield did not emigrate to another State. Presently he owned twelve banks, a chain of gambling halls, many mines, a string of race horses and two Reno hotels, the Riverside and Golden. Potent in State politics, he became popular by his generosity in grubstaking ranchers and prospectors. He was known as "King George...
...Lane Country Day, Cheltenham Township High School) showed that at least some educators thought some films had some educational value. To show their adolescent charges how the world wags, the Progressive Education Association prepared for classroom screenings of Winter set, Black Legion, I Am a Fugitive From a Chain Gang, The Informer, Fury, The Devil Is a Sissy, Men in White...