Word: gaed
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...President being busy, Mrs. Coolidge became the official White House football "fan," attended the game of the Quantico Marines v. the Fort Benning (Ga.) Infantry, presented the President's Cup to the Marines when they won the Service Championship for the second successive year. ¶ In a conference with the press, the White House Spokesman last week revealed that few people realize the magnitude of Government expenses. Take the humble lead pencil, said he, $125,000 per year is spent for that item alone...
...week when Major Brown, white, pleaded guilty as the leader of the lynching party which dragged Dave Wright, white, out of jail in August and killed him.* Eight other members of the party followed Major Brown's precedent by also pleading guilty. Thereupon, Judge Harry Reed of Douglas, Ga., sentenced Major Brown to life imprisonment and his companions to terms of from four to twenty years. Thus, Georgia had punished lynchers within 90 days of the lynching. Georgians were justly proud of Georgia justice. Meanwhile, in Aiken, S. C., there was little progress in the investigation of those responsible...
Berry School. Busy Henry Ford found time to make a special trip to Rome, Ga., on visit to Rooseveltian Martha Berry and her school. Less than 25 years ago Miss Berry, Southern gentlewoman, taught Sunday School to "po' whites" of the mountain district in northwest Georgia. From this grew Berry school, unique, appealing. In the mountains of the South were 4,000,000 impoverished, illiterate descendants of sturdy English-Scotch stock. Their ancestors, not wealthy enough to own slaves, did well as farmers while the original fertility of soil remained. Ignorant of modern refertilization, they grew so poor...
Last week, art came into its own at Atlanta, Ga. A public-spirited citizen had given it a home. The Grand Central Galleries of Manhattan had furnished an exhibit. The excitement of the event was emotionally reflected in front page news columns. For example, a news article in the Atlanta Constitution...
Lieut. Colonel 24th Infantry Fort Benning, Ga...