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...bear to see "John Doe, Negro," "Jane Doe, colored woman," but never "Jane Doe, Negress." Last week the Pittsburgh Courier (Negro weekly) proudly told as important news how the great New York Herald Tribune had apologized for using the word "Negress" in an obscure news item concerning one Susie Lynch. Texas-born City Editor Stanley Walker of the Herald Tribune was quoted by the Courier's Floyd J. Calvin: "We did not mean to use the word and of course apologize for it. There is a positive 'don't' against the use of the word here in the office...
...Other brokerage businesses recently acquired by E. A. Pierce & Co.: Merrill. Lynch & Co.: C. Clothier Jones; Charles D. Robbins & Co.: E. E. MacCrone & Co.; E. M. Hamlin & Co.; William Schall...
...morning last week seismographs all over the U. S. trembled under their little glass cases. At Fordham University, Jesuit Father Joseph Lynch looked at the squiggles on his instrument's record sheet. He could see that heavy temblors were shaking the earth's crust about 2,150 miles away, but seismologists are used to such things. They happen somewhere every few days. Father Lynch said...
...irreconcilables Hamilton and Jefferson. The bitter defeat of the Federalists inaugurated a long period of Republican supremacy coming to a tottering climax in the election of John Quincy Adams over Clay, Crawford, and Jackson. It is in the chapters on the struggles of the Jacksonian era that Mr. Lynch is most successful and brings out a series of interesting personalities and amusing anecdotes as readable as the pages of Claude Bowers...
...finishing William Lynch's book several extremely vital and speculative questions are apt to arise in the mind of the reader. In the party battles it often appears that a strong, popular opposition, such as the Whig-Jacksonians under President Adams are forced to wait a four year term before it can come into power, acting in the meanwhile as a hindrance to the passage of important legislation. The situation is in marked contrast to the system employed in Great Britain and is as much a problem in our Constitution as it ever was. Much material for speculation is likewise...