Word: grouped
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...While his father and mother received on the Hot Springs Country Club porch, John Coolidge strolled over to a group of five young girls, who put their arms around one another's backs and giggled. They said he should come over some night when there was a dance. He said, "I'd like to." He surveyed the golf course and stated that he had been playing that game in the East lately, with Russell Wood of the U. S. Secret Service...
Tribes to Citizens. The policy of disorganizing the more than 200 tribes and bands of Amerindians in the U. S. and treating their members individually, like any other racial group of U. S. citizens, was begun by Congress in 1871. The Government then formally refused to acknowledge or recognize any independent nation or tribe within U. S. boundaries. That put an end to treaties, but it was not retroactive. Land that had been acknowledged, in various of the 370 prior treaties made between the U. S. and the Indians, as belonging to tribes of Indians, was allotted to individual Indians...
...this sort of item which I most often have to "censor" out of TIME. Take, for example, your item about how the Prime Minister of Japan procured an heir* (TIME, Aug. 15). You cannot imagine how impossible it would have been of me to explain to my group of children why that sort of thing is wrong in the United States and yet right in Japan. Their little minds would not grasp the distinction, obvious though it is ; and so I appeal to you to strike all such stories out of TIME. Will you? Otherwise I cannot promise to continue...
Georgia Barbecue. A mingling of whites and blackamoors occurred last week in Woodland, Ga. The scene was a huge barbecue, given by a group of Caucasians for the Negroes of the vicinity. Members of the two races ran foot races toi gether, feasted together, laughed, gossiped. There was a baseball game for Negroes only. The chief white speakers, H. A. Alsobrooks and John Rigden, agricultural agents for railroads, lauded the Negroes for their thrift and industry, urged them to buy more farms and stay in the South. The Rev. J. R. Cason, Negro, replied that the Georgia white...
...Constitution of the Irish Free State as by law established and that I will be faithful to His Majesty, King George V, his heirs and successors by law, in virtue of the common citizenship of Ireland with Great Britain and her adherence to and membership of the group of nations forming the British Commonwealth of Nations...