Word: courting
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Heading aggressively into the stormy problem of protection for political minorities (viz. German communities in Poland), Germany's solid, monkish Stresemann had announced that he was not satisfied with the Council's treatment of minority questions, would appeal to the World Court and the League Assembly for a "positive, crusading attitude rather than a negative, legalistic one on behalf of oppressed peoples...
...ball was held. Edward of Wales was not present. There was no announcement. A Buckingham palace chamberlain issued the customary denials, the customary com plaint that these recurring rumors are "particularly vexatious to court circles" Blonde Princess Ingrid, nevertheless, had a delightful time at her ball. By her express command the band played nothing but waltzes all evening...
...South Georgia recently a suspected murderer could not be found, but his friend could. After the mob had revenged itself on Friend Turner, Mrs. Turner threatened court action. For that she was strung up by the heels, her clothes drenched with gasoline, wrapped in sudden flames. She was pregnant at the time. "Mister, you ought to've heard that nigger wench howl!" When the flames went out, a man stepped up with a knife and made sure her unborn child died...
...Reasons given for lynchings have been: murder, rape, "incendiary language," unpopularity, talking back to a white man, jilting white girls, not jilting them, attempting court action against white men, forgetting to use "sir," seeming prosperous, attempting to enter a car where white men were sitting, attempting to vote or run for office, mistaken identity, standing in the way of a cool breeze...
...toward the pool and its activities. In 1924, anti-trust proceedings were instituted against the Patent Club and 48 associated companies. In 1927 a Master in Chancery reported that the pool was necessary (and therefore legal) because overlapping patents compelled some pooling arrangement.* This report the U. S. District Court ignored and last week declared against the Patent Club. Three U. S. Federal judges in the Chicago district decided (2 t01) that the cracking patents were not overlapping, that the pool and its methods of operation represented an abuse of patent monopoly privileges, that the pool would have to dissolve...