Word: grave
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...headlines. Now sixtyish, he is a husky six-footer with a lined, full face, a kindly smile, a soothing voice. "If all priests were like you, I'd never have left the church," he was assured by Labor's late, famed Mary Harris ("Mother") Jones, at whose grave he preached in 1930. "The best trouble shooter Labor has," Madam Secretary Perkins has said of him. One of his good friends is A. F. of L.'s Baptist president, William Green...
...believe is not cured by a single sellout, nor even by a dozen on end. It is a chronic affliction, and as intractable as gout, the liquor habit, or following the horses. The American pinks have had it for a long time and they will carry it to the grave, and even let us hope, beyond...
...International Settlement police killed two Japanese-controlled Chinese policemen and wounded six others with a submachine gun, when they attacked him from the rear and, according to his claim, without provocation. Said the Japanese Embassy, after an emergency meeting of Army and Navy officers: "We take a grave view of this affair." Foreigners wondered if Japan would consider it provocation enough once and for all to settle the Settlement...
Without revealing the source of the story the Express's, reporter presented it as a hypothetical case. The War Office took a "grave view," pointed out that the story gave the number and location of more than one gun, which constituted the publication of an official secret. This was just what the Express needed for a good story of its own. Next day the London papers picked it up. Headlined the Evening Standard: WAR OFFICE BUYS COPY OF THE HAREWOOD NEWS. Below were pictures of the publishers...
Fortnight ago, on Emancipation Day, a large group of Negro celebrities gathered at this forlorn spot, listened to a flowery oration by Publisher Cooke, then paraded past the grave, dropping gladioli and singing "Carry me back. . . ." Among the singers: famed Negro Blues Composer William Christopher Handy, Composer J. Rosamond (brother of James Weldon) Johnson. Meanwhile spontaneous contributions for a James Bland Memorial began to pile up in Publisher Cooke's Philadelphia office. It looked as if James Bland's grave might soon have something better on it than poison...