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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Dean's life work, the Back-to-Africa idea is not new. Paul Cuffee returned twelve slaves to West Africa, and their Liberia, founded 1822, was the first great movement. Bishop H. M. Turner, until Booker Washington silenced him in the '90s, advocated all U. S. Negroes to follow. Captain Harry Dean's call, issued at the turn of the Century, did not reach the race in a broadcast manner and was even less successful than the short-lived Black Star Line of Jamaica's Marcus ("Black Moses") Garvey, who was deported from...
...under the leadership of Adviser Thayer, it became a monthly with a program devoted to esoteric odds and ends, good printing, and giving a chance to rare or unknown authors whom Adviser Scofield considered worth while. Some of the Dial's feats and features were: D. H. Lawrence's long short-story, "The Man Who Loved Islands," Arthur Symon's obituary estimate of Thomas Hardy; the first pages of Oswald Spengler's "Decline of the West": The last words of Anatole France; new verse by Amy Lowell, Carl Sandburg, e. e. ("lower case") cummings; contributions from...
Twelve of the 33 finished. Ray Keech of Philadelphia won. His Simplex Piston Ring Special averaged 97.583 m. p. h. This was slow driving for Winner Keech, who in 1928 held the world's speed record by moving 207.55 m. p. h. at Daytona Beach, Fla. But it was not easy, for he took the notoriously low-banked, treacherous Indianapolis turns without lowering his throttle. His skilled chauffering won him about...
Second University--Stroke, P. H. Watts '31; 7, R. I. McKesson '31; 6, R. N. Webster '31; 5, M. R. Brownell '30; 4, J. W. Hallowell '31; 3, H. W. Sturges '30; 2, E. L. Millard '31; bow, S. W. Swaim '31; cox, L. L. Wadsworth...
...Kennedy, Chairman of the Board of Athletic Control at Princeton and N. C. A. A. representative on the United States Olympic Committee, will act as referee of the Oxford-Cambridge-Harvard-Yale track meet in the Harvard Stadium on July 13, according to an announcement made at the H...