Word: line
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Mason & Dixon line between Pennsylvania and Maryland (and its westward extension under the Missouri Compromise of 1820) once divided free States from slave. It still divides the North from the South on Negro treatment. Last fortnight portly, grey-wooled Oscar De Priest crossed it for the first time since he took his seat as the only Negro Congressman (from Illinois). He addressed 5,000 blacks at the Lexington (Ky.) Colored Fair...
Cleveland is the largest of some 400 U. S. city-manager-plan cities. Next largest is Cincinnati where last week a determined effort was being planned by old-line Republican politicians to gain control of the city council at the November election, to restore politics to the city government, oust able City Manager Clarence O. Sherrill...
Doughtiest of Soviet commanders in the actual front-line sector, likeliest to start the game of putting White Russians to the sword, is Red Russia's greatest cavalry commander, Comrade Semion Micheilovitch Budenny, fierce, resourceful, reckless. His wife, from his own wild Kuban steppes, galloped and fought at his side when the young Soviet Republic was death-grappling with Wrangel and Denikin...
...French answer to Britain and Germany has been voiced by alert Jean Tillier, assistant director of the French Line in the U. S. and Canada: "We are going to build a super-fast ship. I won't tell her speed, but she will be very much larger and faster than anything afloat today. The plans are now being completed. The date for the laying of her keel has not been set, but we know about all the other ships and we are certain that ours will be both the largest and the fastest...
...Airvia Transportation Co., which is just getting its wing-hold commercially. U. S. postal inspectors swooped into its Manhattan offices, ordered officers and employes to bring their account books to a Federal grand jury for study. Other inspectors did the same at Coastal Airways office, because of that line's pending merger with Airvia. Still other inspectors visited Hadley & Co., investment security sellers. Federal warrants were issued for the arrest of one Austin Howard Montgomery (alias Arthur Montgomery, alias Monte Griffo, onetime convict) and Gerald Tiffany (alias Harry Taylor). Trans-Atlantic Flyers Roger Quincy Williams and Lewis A. Yancey...