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Word: ens (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1920-1929
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TIME, June 11, under "Races" p. 13, you say Lee and Dave Blackman, Negroes, killed en route to Shreveport jail, "had done nothing but be born their brother's brother" and that, "the Parish people wanted more blood." You don't know what you are talking about and you are what decent Southern people call "nigger lovers." The Blackmans were bad niggers, bullies, bootleggers, makers of moonshine and thieves. Last year their father shot out the eyes of a little white boy. We live in harmony with our good niggers-strange ties of affection exist between the white...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters: Jul. 2, 1928 | 7/2/1928 | See Source »

...experience. From New York came Elizabeth Marbury, 72 years old by grace of exactly a week, vigorous social worker and business woman. Delegate Marbury could claim precedence, if she liked, over California's Gertrude Franklin Atherton, who will not be 71 until next Hallowe'en. Delegates wondered at the youthful appearance of Mrs. Atherton, ascribed it variously to the California climate, to her busy literary life, to her intense interest in the problems of rejuvenation...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: Brown Turbans | 6/25/1928 | See Source »

...also said: "No porter works 400 hours per month. Some work only 100 hours and the average is less than 300 hours. Porters have sleep periods while on long runs and long rest periods at the end of runs. For instance: three-day run to Pacific Coast (nightly sleep en route), then 24 or 28 hours off on the Coast. Three days back to Chicago and then a rest period of five and six days, with...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: LABOR: Porters | 6/18/1928 | See Source »

...filed the aisles and Professor Moore repeated the brief ceremony. Later he conducted various groups through the Yard, pointing out Wadsworth. House and the room where George Washington interviewed his aides during the Revolutionary War, and various other objects of interest in the history of the University en route...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: PILGRIMS WELCOMED IN APPLETON CHAPEL | 6/12/1928 | See Source »

...troubleshooter" is what Major Gunn called himself, † "I will provide everything except whiskey," he said. This remark cleared Major Gunn of any connection with a $25,000 shipment of alcoholic goods, marked "phosphate" (fertilizer) and consigned vaguely to Kansas City, which was seized last week in Alabama en route from Florida...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CAMPAIGNS: Grand Old Party | 6/11/1928 | See Source »

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