Word: downes
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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TIME'S source for lynching information was the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People, which set down as a "lynching" the shooting of Ella Wiggins, white, in Gastonia last September. She was killed when a mob sprayed bullets in a truckful of men and women going to...
In the White House pressroom a telephone jangled disturbingly. Over the wire came a warning voice: "You guys be ready for a hot story at 2 o'clock." Five minutes later newsmen, looking across the White House lawn, observed a strange movement out on Pennsylvania Avenue. They hurried out to...
DOWN WITH HOOVER
ALTHOUGH a scientific cosmology in not easily comprehended by the layman interested in the interdependence of the instruments and the methods of science. Professor Whitehead constructs his metaphysical explanation more vividly than might be supposed. "Science and the Modern World," which consists of an amplification of the Lowell Lectures for...
Mr. Willoughby brings out in an anthoritative manner the circumstances under which many of the lighthouses were first suggested, engineering difficulties which in several cases threatened failure, disasters to lighthouse property and personnel, heroic deeds of keepers in times of peril to their lives, and many local legends. Among the...