Word: livingstones
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...that furniture back!" and "We want something to eat!" they rushed the constables. Casualties: three Negroes killed, 20 Negroes and whites injured. Mayor Anton Cermak ordered further evictions to cease. ¶Near Pointe-a-la-Hache, La., occurred Lynching No. 4 for the year. The victim, Oscar Livingston, 23, had been jailed on a charge of attempted rape of a young white woman. Eight days after his incarceration a band of masked white men broke into the jail, drove Negro Livingston 15 mi., made him get out of the car and run for it. They shot...
...Aiken Knights polo team (George Herbert ["Pete"] Bostwick, Dunbar Wright Bostwick, Elbridge Thomas Gerry II, Robert Livingston Gerry Jr.): the Herbert Memorial Cup tournament at Rumson, N. J., defeating Army...
...cotton to increase consumption and reduce the cotton surplus is the Galveston (Texas) Chamber of Commerce. Recently it adopted and sent to Washington a resolution calling upon the Treasury to use an all-cotton paper stock for U. S. currency.* Last week Acting Secretary of the Treasury Ogden Livingston Mills, replying to the chamber's general manager, rejected the suggestion on the ground that linen stock gives paper money great durability. During the War when Irish linen was scarce the U. S. used cotton stock but discovered that it stretched and tore...
...fast. Out of the tunnel he skirted the rear portico of the White House (where the presidential kennels are), paced down the west colonnade, marched unannounced by a back door into the offices of the President of the U. S. Nobody barred his way because he was Ogden ("Oggie") Livingston Mills, the rich and high-born Undersecretary of the Treasury, now acting as the Department's chief in the absence of Secretary Andrew William Mellon. The President, many a time last week, wanted to see him in a hurry...
...left an estate of $41.000,000 in New York Central, Atchison, Topeka & Santa Fe, International Paper. Shredded Wheat, Tidewater Oil, Black Diamond Coal, Seaboard Air Line, et al. His daughter became the late great Mrs. Whitelaw Reid. His son Ogden collected works of art, married Ruth Livingston, great-great-great-granddaughter of Robert Livingston whose statue New York put into the U. S. Capitol as one of its two most illustrious citizens...