Word: crowings
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...PROTEST EXPULSION OF I. P. FLORY FOR ACTION AGAINST JIM CROWISM WHEN FISK STUDENTS WERE INVOLVED BY THE UNIVERSITY ADMINISTRATION IN SINGING ENGAGEMENT AT LOEW JIM CROW THEATER NASHVILLE STOP WE DEMAND YOUR SUPPORT IN FIGHT FOR ACADEMIC FREEDOM AND AGAINST RACIAL DISCRIMINATION BY HIS IMMEDIATE AND UNCONDITIONAL REINSTATEMENT...
Ishmael P. Flory, a member of the N. S. L. at Fisk University, was dismissed for having written an article against jim-crowism in a Baltimore negro newspaper. The protest was occasioned by the fact that the Fisk Singers had accepted an engagement in this jim-crow theater which discriminates against negro students...
...Sandwich glass, familiar in blue dolphin candlesticks, setting hens, and patterned tumblers, was made in Sandwich, Mass. for 60 years during the 19th Century. Later still, the golden iridescences of Tiffany glass, created by the late Louis Comfort Tiffany (TIME, Jan. 30, 1933), had a transitory popularity. Although collectors crow over early American glass, much now available cannot be definitely authenticated, much more is counterfeit...
...ship's captain, called to arbitrate, tossed a shilling, sent the bird to Staten Island. Ornithologists identified the bird, which the ship's crew had called an "ice owl," as an American hawk owl, a dark, small-eyed, falcon-like creature slightly smaller than a crow, which breeds in the Arctic, sometimes winters as far south as the U. S., never goes to sea if it can help...
...National's blended whiskey but also whiskey for Canada Dry Ginger Ale. Standard Brands will make Penn-Maryland's gin, will market its own brand, Fleischmann, through Penn-Maryland, make Canada Dry gin. The quality trade National Distillers reserved for itself-unblended Old Grand Dad, Old Crow, Old Taylor, Sunny Brook, Old Over holt, Large, Mount Vernon, In the importing field National Distillers took under its wing the old house of Alex. D. Shaw...