Word: free
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Such an advertisement might have appeared in the press last week if Secretary Morgenthau had been unable to get free publicity by a simple announcement. Replaced by a modern automatic light on a breakwater several hundred feet beyond it and turned over to the Treasury as "surplus property," the Cedar Island light was to become the latest of some 100 abandoned lighthouses sold to private owners since the U. S. lighthouse service was created...
After the Civil War, U. S. Negroes began to clamor for official positions with the Government which had set them free. An active early colored Abolitionist was Frederick Augustus Washington Bailey, slave son of a slave mother by a white father. When he fled from Maryland to the North after the wife of his master had secretly taught him to read and write, he changed his name to Frederick Douglass, became famed as an Abolition orator and editor. As his fame grew, Northern friends who feared he would be returned to Maryland under the Fugitive Slave Law sent...
Flushed, Chairman Wilkie began: "I am now free . . . to discuss with you in open meeting the question of whether or not Dr. Frank . . . should be reappointed for the year 1937-38." Stolidly Mr. Wilkie described how he had told Governor La Follette that a "change would have to be made in the presidency." Regent John P. Callahan, State Superintendent of Public Instruction, and Regent Daniel Grady a Portage lawyer, Chairman Wilkie said agreed with him. The three had "conferred" with Governor La Follette. Regent Callahan volunteered to break the news to Dr. Frank. From that time, Chairman Wilkie complained, President...
...Suggested last week was the possibility that New York State might become a free-trade island in a price-fixing...
...heavy advertising appropriations (bankers had previously received $150 each for advertising Government issues) Cooke sold notes to small investors, filled the papers with patriotic appeals, plastered the country with flamboyant posters, inaugurating modern methods of high-pressure salesmanship. He kept the agencies open at night, serving coffee and doughnuts free to the customers...