Word: louisiana
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Jean Toomer's grandfathers was Pinckney Benton Stewart Pinchback, a mulatto carpet-bagger who became Acting Governor of Louisiana but was refused a U. S. Senate seat in 1876. After attending the University of Wisconsin. Jean Toomer became an exponent of Georges Gurdjieff, the Armenian-Greek cultist who founded the Institute for the Harmonious Development of Man at Fontainebleau, France, and whose most famed disciple was the late Katherine Mansfield (TIME, March 24, 1930). Last autumn Disciple Toomer took a mixed party of eight, all white except himself, to a farmhouse outside Portage, birthplace of Novelist Latimer...
...Railway Labor Act was invoked by President Hoover in a proclamation to settle a wage dispute on the Louisiana & Arkansas R. R. and the Louisiana, Arkansas & Texas R. R. Harvey Couch, one of President Hoover's R. F. C. directors, is president of the Louisiana & Arkansas, whose employes objected to a 15% wage cut. To a special board of settlement President Hoover appointed Chief Justice Walter P. Stacy of the North Carolina Supreme Court, Justice Julian H. Moore of the Colorado Supreme Court and Dr. Davis R. Dewey of Massachusetts Institute of Technology...
...fourths of the State Legislatures ratify this latest proposal within seven years, it will lapse, becoming null and void. Virginia's hasty ratification started a race among the States to tack the "Lame Duck'' Amendment to the Constitution after the one providing for woman suffrage. Kentucky, Louisiana, New Jersey, Mississippi, Massachusetts, New York, South Carolina, Illinois, Rhode Island and Connecticut, all with legislatures sitting, jockeyed for second and third honors in performing a Federal function. Nebraska's Senator George William Norris, who has fought long and hard to reform Congressional dates fixed in the stage-coach...
Sued for Separation, Roark Bradford, author of Louisiana Negro stories from which Marc Connolly wrote The Green Pastures; by Mrs. Lydia Sehorn Bradford; in New Orleans. Charge: abandonment. Mrs. Bradford lies abed with tuberculosis in Arizona...
...bachelor of science degree was awarded to R. G. Breithut, of New York City, Leonard Horvitz, of New Bedford, P. B. Lemann, of New Orleans, Louisiana, and E. L. Mohl, of Jerusalem, Palestine, as of the Class of 1931. George Crawford, II, of New York City, received the same degree as of the Class of 1928, while W. L. Hansberry, of Washington, D. C., was awarded it as of the Class...