Word: fla
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Died. Charles Deering, 74, one-time Chairman of the International Harvester Co.; in Miami, Fla...
...Petersburg, Fla...
...post-War peak of 1920. With such things to fight for and with arrogant confidence, President Lewis and his bituminous boys assembled last week in Indianapolis to draw up their terms. On St. Valentine's Day, these terms will be presented to the coal operators at Miami, Fla., where a new compact will be attempted. The Operators, notwithstanding the fact that 1926 was a banner bituminous year, are having trouble. The soft coal industry, unlike the hard coal industry, is only partly unionized. Thus, the operators in western Pennsylvania, Ohio, Indiana and Illinois, who employ union labor...
...Bethune had been introduced to them as the "world's foremost Negro woman educator." They had been told of her life-how she was born in a log cabin on a rice farm, how with her husband and son she had moved, long before the boom, to Palatka, Fla., where she taught in school, and sang "with unusual effect" in churches. All the time she wanted to start a school of her own, a school to "make colored girls plain and decent." She began in a rented house with five girls. She got five dollars for singing...
Died. Marvin McTyeire Parks, 54, President of Georgia State College for Women; in Tampa, Fla.; when struck by automobile driven by a Negress...