Word: knight
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Wilson, the "Little Napoleon of Negro Elkdom," an invitation to review a parade in Washington on Aug. 27, during the IBPOEW convention. Joining with Grand Exalted Ruler Wilson in pressing the invitation were Grand Commissioner of Athletics John Thomas Rhine, Washington's leading Negro undertaker; Grand Esteemed Loyal Knight Roy Solomon Bond, Maryland's most famed Negro lawyer, who claims to have won more divorce cases than any lawyer of any color in his State; Brigadier General of the Antlered Guards of the District of Columbia, Maryland and Delaware Arthur Newman, onetime A. E. F. infantry captain...
...portal opened, in strode Great Master Connaught to hold the fifth investiture of Knights of the Bath in a hundred years. It was Connaught who in 1913 revived most of the ancient ritual, for decades in abeyance. Theory of the origin of the Bath is that in medieval times a soldier might well stink so strongly that even his strong-nostriled King might find it necessary to have the heroic fellow washed before dubbing him knight. Last week there was no actual washing, and all 21 new knights appeared most cleanly. Under the stern Great Master's eagle eye they...
Died. Leopold Woelfling, 66, onetime Archduke Leopold Ferdinand of Austria, Grand Duke of Tuscany, Royal Prince of Hungary and Bohemia, Knight of the Order of the Golden Fleece, Colonel of the Imperial & Royal Army of Austria-Hungary; of apoplexy; in Berlin. Archduke Leopold caused a sensation in 1903 by giving up titles, power and wealth to marry an actress (Vilma Adamovic), divorced her four years later when she became a nudist and vegetarian, married a servant girl (Marie Rirter), became by turns a cabaret entertainer, bartender, railway clerk, subscription canvasser, insurance agent, actor, doorman, domestic servant. He died in poverty...
Married. Max Adelbert Baer, 26, pugilist; and Mary Ellen Sullivan. 32, manager of Washington's New Willard. Hotel Coffee Shop; in Washington. D. C. Fisticuffer Baer had previously been reported engaged to Mary Duke, Mary Kirk Brown, June Knight, Edna Dunham, Sally Rand, Bee Starr, Shirley La Belle, Judith Allen, Olive Beck...
...authority is not insurmountable but the Supreme Court's definition of interstate commerce has really important implications. Why are so many of these telegrams futile? Because people don't understand the implications of the Court's decision. The Court has practically gone back to the old Knight case of 1885 which limited "interstate commerce" to goods in transit. Since then, the Court has made the interstate commerce clause apply to a great many things not only in transit but affecting interstate commerce. When the Constitution was written the country was in the horse and buggy stage. There...