Word: corrigans
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...blocks down S Street, Washington, from where Woodrow Wilson made his residence, John J. Buckley, Irene Hand Corrigan and a number of other property owners in that section made an agreement among themselves They mutually bound themselves not to allow their property to be used, occupied, purchased or leased by a person of Negro blood; nor were they to give their property to such a person. This engagement was to be effective for 21 years...
...following year, 1922, Mrs. Corrigan agreed to sell a house on the property to Mrs. Helen Curtis, known likewise as Mrs. A. L. Curtis. After the agreement had been made it was discovered that Mrs. Curtis was a person of Negro blood. Then the trouble began. Mr. John J. Buckley, one of the parties to the agreement, brought suit in equity to prevent the transfer of the property to Mrs. Curtis. For four years the case was fought. The National Association for the Advancement of Colored People supported Mrs. Curtis and Mrs. Corrigan against Mr. Buckley, and other organizations joined...
...when I found no reference to the Gardner in your list of Eights for less than $2,000. The Gardner is $1995, is one of the first Eight-in-line cars ever made and?well, I rank it among eights as I rank TIME among periodicals. . . . A. W. CORRIGAN...
...Anna became La Comtesse de Castellane by a marriage solemnized in Manhattan by the late Archbishop Corrigan. After three children were born, La Comtesse obtained a civil divorce from Le Comte on grounds of infidelity. In 1908, she married Le Marquis de Talleyrand Perigord, Duc de Sagan...
...those throaty melodramas in which the ingenue is virtuous and the villain a fiend, came in with Christmas and will probably go out with the Old Year. Unwittingly, the virtuous child implicates herself in her master's villainies. Pearls-a great many pearls-are stolen. Emmett Corrigan, who should have known better, waded around in the shallows of the leading part. Several of the cast were almost criminally incompetent. The audience tittered...