Word: christian
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...called on President Coolidge and induced him to enroll in the Red Cross. He made out a check for $25* and she pinned a Red Cross button on his lapel. At a quarter of two she received 75 women attending a convention of the Young Men's Christian Association...
...good. After a time he abandoned the barber shop to continue as a tradesman in tobacco, candy and other small goods. Nobody paid much attention to him. He was practically the only Negro in town. He did not go to Church, in fact he said he was not a Christian. He read a good deal privately, he had no friends, he "tended up to business." He invested in real estate...
Said the Presbyterian before he began to weep: "He was the best educated man, the most progressive business man and the ideal Christian of our community...
...Outbreak of the Trouble was officially but vaguely reported by General Sarrail: "A rebellion was started in Damascus by Druses, Pan-Arabs and Communists. . . . After attacks on the Christian settlement . . . French troops bombarded the main thoroughfares. . . . The situation is calmer...
Whatever their intent, extensive rioting and looting commenced; and General Sarrail gave every evidence of having been stampeded by this into a belief that the French forces must rally as for a last stand. He is said to have withdrawn French citizens and troops from the Christian quarter, leaving the other Christian nationals to the protection of their consuls and at the mercy of the mob, which was fortunately not extremely hostile to non-French foreigners. And for 48 hours French shot and shell poured into the city; French tanks dashed at full speed through the streets, firing point blank...