Word: eight
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...appeal to the People of Mississippi. It arose, it grasped rifle, shotgun, pistol, it rode on horses by night and it took Negro Shepherd away from the State of Mississippi and dealt with him after its own fashion. In Mississippi, Blacks outnumber Whites by almost nine to eight. Where there are nine Black Men to eight White Women, the People is apt to find excuse for making an occasional example. Meanwhile the State of Mississippi took no proceedings against its People. Governor Bilbo said he had neither time nor money to investigate 2,000 persons. A coroner's jury...
...Lansing, Mich., courtroom last week Judge Charles B. Collingwood was sentencing Mrs. Etta Mae Miller. It had taken a jury of eight men and four women only 13 minutes to find her guilty. She was charged with having sold two pints of liquor. She was charged also with being a "habitual criminal," inasmuch as this last offense was her fourth. So to her said Judge Collingwood: "It is the sentence of this court that from and after this day you shall be confined in the Detroit House of Correction for the remainder of your life." In the same court...
When the Diocese of New York was seeking a successor to Bishop Charles S. Burch eight years ago. Rev. William Thomas Manning was but a minority candidate. There were two objections to the then rector of Trinity: 1) he was a "High" Churchman, while his predecessor Bishop Greer had been of the "Broad" persuasion; 2) he was a native of England, an Anglophile...
...Eight years later Father William died. In the hands of executors he left a sealed envelope. It was solemnly torn open. Inside was the name of Brother Bramwell, nominated General of the world-wide tambourine Army in dynastic succession to Father William...
Died. William Charles Adamson, 74, onetime member of the U. S. Customs Court in Manhattan, onetime U. S. Representative from Georgia, author of the Eight Hour Railroad Bill;? of pneumonia; in Manhattan...