Word: lettered
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Many a reputable Negro leader distrusts The Man Bilbo, who was once accused of muzzling Negro pickers in his pecan grove. He tickles the poor-white vote with his back-to-Africa talk, but he appeals to many a poor black as well. Last week he flourished a letter from Harlem: ". . . I, Mack Royal . . . seartnley will go at the word-I and my whole famley. . . . Sir, please inrole my name; please do this with fail...
...editor of the San Francisco Chronicle thought and said that Jack Neylan must be pulling legs. So Mr. Neylan wrote a letter which clearly established the Neylan Plan as a perfectly serious though startling proposal, reminiscent in its visionary aspect of Henry Ford's high-minded Peace Ship effort of 23 years...
Last week, however, Allison had its newest secret, the world's most powerful aircraft engine, on display in G. M.'s Building on New York's World's Fair grounds for all to see. Because it was displayed as casually as Poe's purloined letter, few visitors paid any attention...
...recent column in the Princetonian and a letter from a Tiger alumnus first broached the idea that the New London race be extended to include the Big Three...
White remarks in his letter that the Committee was surprised at the size of the schools as proven by the poll run at that time but he adds, "from one point of view we had to pull our punches to get anyone to believe...