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Dates: during 1920-1929
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What should Judge Barnhill decide? If ever a judge had cause to let his personal feelings influence his decision, it was Judge Barnhill at that moment, for he had just been handed a cartoon from the New York Daily Worker, Communist sheet, depicting him as a fat ogre dripping gore. Judicious, big-minded, he smiled tolerantly at this libel on his integrity by friends of the defense?and 20 minutes later granted the defense's request for a change of venue. Fortunate were the defendants that somebody was not punished for contempt of court. The case was moved to Charlotte...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: LABOR: Textile Trial | 8/12/1929 | See Source »

Churchill: Let him tell us how he knew ?the Right Honorable gentleman has got himself into a difficulty...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: Dictator Ousted | 8/5/1929 | See Source »

Last week Equity's campaign was spirited. More and more Hollywood automobiles carried blue Equity emblems. In Hollywood's American Legion arena, where filmdom sees weekly boxing bouts, 3,000 of the Equity faithful met. Cried one: "Let there be sound and fury, pickets and turmoil! This is a labor fight." Cried another, pompously: "We are not laborers, but artists. Let there be no uproar." Then arose an American Federation of Labor delegate. "Remember," he said, "until you joined labor in the 1919 strike you were gypsies. You had no dignity...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Equity v. Hollywood | 8/5/1929 | See Source »

Solution offered to the Association: let white medical leaders help Negro hospitals improve until they are fit to train internes; let new Negro hospitals be developed, particularly in northern Negro communities, make no discrimination between white and Negro medical students or internes, in schools or hospitals...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Schools for Negroes | 8/5/1929 | See Source »

With the cup at stake, young Player Lott played hard and headily. He took ten games from Cochet, including the second set at 6-3. But his brilliant shots were mixed too much with just-misses. His backhand was specially spotty. He let Cochet have the next-to-last...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Davis Cup | 8/5/1929 | See Source »

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