Word: fortes
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...year before. Disturbed by this turn in the long ebbing tide of mob murder, a group of public-spirited whites joined with a group of public-spirited blacks in a Southern Commission on the Study of Lynching. Chairman of the commission which approached its problem dispassionately was George Fort Milton, publisher of the Chattanooga News, author of The Age of Hate. Other respect-commanding white members included Julian Harris, news director of the Atlanta Constitution and son of Uncle Remus' creator; President William Joseph McGlothlin of Furman University; Dr. Howard Washington Odum of the University of North Carolina. Noted...
...ethnology who had gone West to study red men in situ, was found mangled and dead in a ravine on the White River (Ariz.) Indian Reservation (TIME, Aug. 3). Clad in squaw's dress and beads, she had set out a few days earlier for a dance at Fort Apache. It was known that an Apache buck had accompanied her. It was later learned that an Apache buck had made unwelcome advances to her. Several young tribesmen were held for questioning. All were characteristically mute. None was indicted for the girl's death. No Apache seemed to know...
Last week the first bridge across the lower Hudson River was ready. It joins Manhattan at 178th Street to Fort Lee, N. J., near which are Englewood, Edgewater, Ridgefield Park, Leonia...
...glamorous days in the career of Pepper Martin. Son of an Irish father and an English mother, he rode to Greenville, Tex. on a freight car in 1924, got a job playing second base for $150 a month. Bought by the Cardinals for $2,500, he was schooled at Fort Smith, Syracuse, Houston and Rochester, minor league teams maintained by the St. Louis Cardinals as developing ground for young players. Tried as a substitute in 1928, he became a regular when St. Louis traded Centrefielder Taylor Douthit to Cincinnati last summer. Gay, generally grimy, accompanied by a wife who cried...
...Brooklyn home James Dennis Wyber, 14. played soldier, used the roof as a fort, used his room as an arsenal for the storage of a rifle, an airgun, ammunition, a trench helmet, bayonets. One day James Dennis Wyber missed some things, suspected an enemy foraging party. To his roof-fort he climbed, waited until Alexander Annunciato, 9, began to climb to the enemy fortress-a garage roof. Soldier Annunciato got three companions, prepared to take the Wyber fort. Soldier Wyber fired a warning shot, hit Soldier Annunciato in the back, wounded him severely...