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...charged with rape of, or advances to, white women. White women have not half the attraction for Negro men that Negro women have for white men?say Negro men. Many a Southern gentleman had, and has, children by his cook. Author White points out that Southern white women themselves frown on lynching as a means of protecting their virtue, which Negroes protected during the Civil War, when white husbands were away. Lynchers, usually sexual perverts, seldom wait for confirmation of alleged attacks. A rumor, a whisper, a bloodthirsty suggestion by one of a crowd of street loungers, is enough...
...spoke with a worried frown...
...sweethearts at home. A good story would be made out of an encounter with at least a Prussian Oberst! The job was just completed when they were struck dumb with terror by the appearance in the doorway of a herculean figure dressed in the same enemy color, voice and frown suggesting Ludendorff. The thieves fled in opposite directions leaving the mule to stop the Germans...
Knowing this, and angered by the Senate Chamber's emptiness, Senator Reed darkly hinted that he would filibuster. This news brought a frown to the tired forehead of the Senate's other Reed? slim, stooping young David Aiken Reed of Pennsylvania, protégé of Andrew Mellon...
...member banks. The essential theory of the Federal Reserve System is that the member banks in each district get together, pool their resources and form a virtually inexhaustible reserve fund upon which all may freely draw. Therefore, although the Federal Reserve Board may frown upon the use of this reserve for speculative purposes, it cannot lose sight of the fact that the Federal Reserve banks are privately owned, are operating largely with private funds, and fundamentally exist for the sake of supplying money rather than withdrawing...