Word: firsts
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Mason & Dixon line between Pennsylvania and Maryland (and its westward extension under the Missouri Compromise of 1820) once divided free States from slave. It still divides the North from the South on Negro treatment. Last fortnight portly, grey-wooled Oscar De Priest crossed it for the first time since he took his seat as the only Negro Congressman (from Illinois). He addressed 5,000 blacks at the Lexington (Ky.) Colored Fair...
...Harlem: "When I got to Congress and nominated my first candidate for West Point I picked the blackest boy I could find anywhere. My appointee has been writing disheartening letters. ... If the young man gets cold feet and quits West Point because of any racial discrimination, next time I'll appoint a bigger and blacker Negro...
...Minor offenders were released. Prather pleaded guilty, said he received protection money from Griesedieck, split it with Heber Nations. Twice was Heber Nations tried, twice convicted. Twice the U. S. Court of Appeals upset the verdict, ordered a new trial. He is now waiting his third trial, Griesedieck his first...
...effect of this decision, the first of its kind by an appellate court, was to transfer to the U. S. the burden of proving, not that home-made wine contains more than .5% alcohol but that it contains enough alcohol to make a person drunk and hence is outside the "non-intoxicating" clause of the Volstead Act and therefore illegal...
Born in Pennsylvania 60 years ago, a Cleveland City Councilman before he was 30, Mr. Hopkins in 1924 left successful business enterprises which had amply enriched him to become Cleveland's first manager. Three times in almost three years Cleveland citizens have been asked to vote down the city manager plan by Harry Lyman Davis, onetime Governor of Ohio and mayor of Cleveland, who sought to restore "the city government to the people" - and the politicians. To the defense of Manager Hopkins' government flocked the women. They campaigned for him. made house-to-house canvasses...