Word: costs
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...think if anyone ever needed a coat of tar and feathers its the author of "Judge Lynch." Yes, we do lynch the Negro in the South. Some day the North will be sorry they didn't try the same cure for certain things that the Negro knows will cost him his life-the white man is subject to the same law. I would love to meet the author of this article and show him that Southern people are not "crackers," but a Negro is a nigger and always will be one regardless of the Hoovers. No doubt the present...
Whatever the cost, it was worth it to get rid of turbulent Feng. Last week a stable China united under one government seemed nearer fulfillment than at any time in the past 18 years. Feng's armies and dominions, it was announced, were to be turned over to Marshal Yen Hsi-shan, strong ally of the Nationalists, "Model Governor" of Shansi Province...
...They don't tell you to shoot but they might as well?they say not to let a boat get by 'at any cost.' The men are under terrific strain and are constantly being pressed by superior officers for 'results.' They want to keep their jobs and make a record and they shoot...
...Collided with the race issue as the result of specific demands for a denunciation of Mrs. Hoover's White House reception of Mrs. Oscar De Priest, wife of Illinois' Negro Congressman. I. C. Trotman of Suffolk, who had telegraphed Mrs. Hoover that her act had cost the Hoovercrats 25,000 votes in Virginia, resigned in protest from the executive committee when the convention only declared: "We stand for racial integrity and while official relations must be maintained, we deplore any social relationship between whites and blacks." Later, as the convention was going home, it was disturbed to hear that President...
...nitrate beds in Chile. Daniel Guggenheim, with the late Thomas Fortune Ryan and Bel gian, French and Portuguese financiers and politicians, worked up diamond mines in the Congo region. The Guggenheims, Daniel and his brothers, attribute much of their fortune to their hiring experts at no matter what cost and to maintaining the welfare of their employes...