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Word: civilizer (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1920-1929
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Negroes may be freed from civil slavery, but segregation of them in colored churches is just as bad, declared Dr. Mordecai Wyatt Johnson, president of Howard University, Washington, D. C., before the Federal Council of the Churches of Christ in America, in convention at Rochester, N. Y. The Council, completing its quadrennial meeting, adopted resolutions to give special attention to the griefs of Negro brethren...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: Ecclesiastical Notes | 1/7/1929 | See Source »

During the Civil War the independent attitude of the Eagle resulted in its suspension for a period by the Union authorities...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: Gannett's Eagle | 1/7/1929 | See Source »

...sound pictures of colonial days, of Indians hearing the mournful call of death, of pilgrims arriving jubilantly in answer to the first loud, clear call of America (the theme is easily marked as the outstanding one in the anthem). Dark days come in the second movement dated for the Civil War. "I hear America singing" is the marking on the score and what Bloch hears he repeats-snatches of old Negro songs, of "Old Folks at Home," "Pop Goes the Weasel," "Hail Columbia," "John Brown's Body," the "Battle Cry of Freedom," "Tramp, Tramp, Tramp." There is conflict then...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: New Anthem | 12/31/1928 | See Source »

...great was the shock to Atlantans, to Georgians, to Southerners. It was an Adair who was the conductor of the first railroad train that ever entered Atlanta (1845). It was an Adair who was prominent in the rebuilding of Atlanta after Union troops burned the city during the Civil War. Forrest Adair Sr., present head of Adair family, is a Past Illustrious...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business & Finance: Past Potentate Acquitted | 12/31/1928 | See Source »

Died. Winfield Taylor Durbin, 81, onetime Republican Governor of Indiana (1901-05), financier (banks, public utilities), Civil & Spanish War veteran, of Anderson, Ind.; of bronchial pneumonia; in Anderson...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones: Dec. 31, 1928 | 12/31/1928 | See Source »

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