Word: high
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...told Marthy, thank God a man who believeth in Jesus Christ is not dead. "We know that we are not very high in society, but God loves us. ... O, what would Jesus say if he passed through Marion? He's weepin' at all this scenery." At Gastonia. The Marion murders gave North Carolina its sixth textile tangle now current in the courts. One of the other trials, that of 16 workers accused of murdering the police chief of Gastonia, got going again last week at Charlotte after repeated delays (TIME, Sept. 23). The 16 defendants, mostly Northern organizers...
...stone high above Italian Lake Maggiore about a mile from the Villa of Locarno, Switzerland, that Germany's Stresemann talked momentously with France's Briand...
Meantime the Senate continued its examination of the roaring, boasting, accusing cause of the present lobby excitements -William Baldwin Shearer, "AMERICAN, CHRISTIAN, PROTESTANT, NATIONALIST," the high-powered propagandist who is suing the Bethlehem, American Brown Boveri and Newport News shipbuilding companies for $257,655 back pay for alleged services in breaking up the naval arms conference at Geneva in 1927 and boosting the Jones-White Act (ship subsidies) last year (TIME, Sept. 2 et seq.}. Company officials had testified they did hire Shearer, in admitted folly. Now the Senators had to hear Shearer. Between his gusts of anger...
Flem David Sampson, Governor of Kentucky since Jan. 1, 1928 assumed among other duties that of seeing that Kentucky school children got new schoolbooks. He and the State textbook commission were soon flooded by 25 schoolbook publishers with sample copies. Partly because he is the only Republican high official in his administration, partly because his opponents were ignorant of publishing practice, Governor Sampson was indicted last month for receiving "gifts." Seven members of the textbook commission and all the sample-sending publishers were also indicted, it being known that the commissioners had sold the sample books they received for sums...
...Tilden; no. 2--Hunter; no. 3--Lott; no. 4--Doeg; no. 5--Van Ryn; no. 6--Mercur; no. 7--Allison; no. 8--Shields; no. 9--Coen; no. 10--Bell. The objections will be strongest to the last three. A good many will insist that Shields is too high, that Coen ought not be ranked, and that Mangin ought to receive consideration somewhere. And maybe they are right. Judging strictly on this season's record, there would unquestionably be some changes, but judging from an estimate of the ability and immediate possibilities of the players this rating seems essentially sound. Shields...