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...again attacked in fiction, this time from an extremely modern and expressionistic angle. Virginia Hade, haughty Southern beauty, meets John Cloud, young, intelligent Negro, in the woods. They find each other sympathetic. Virginia's family and the other white people of the town misunderstand and set out to lynch Cloud. Virginia might have saved Cloud if she had tried, but she feels too indifferent-nothing seems to matter much any more-so she doesn't, and he is lynched. The form and style of the book should prove of great interest to students of the most recent literary...
...second largest depart- ment store in Newark, and occupies one-quarter of a block admirably located with respect to the Pennsylvania Railroad, Public Service Terminal, Hudson Tubes and prospective subway developments. The new management, consisting of Messrs. Kresge and Plaut, and the banking firm of Merrill, Lynch & Co., expect to build up the balance of the ground floor space in the near future...
...Merrill, Lynch & Co. have been foremost in financing seven large chain store systems?S. S. Kresge & Co., the McCrory Stores Company, the Acme Tea Company, Jones Brothers Tea Company, J. C. Penney Company, G. R. Kinney & Company, the Melville Shoe Company. These companies operate about 2,000 stores, whose total sales in 1922 exceeded...
...which is a study of a foreign born servant girl working in America. George Middleton, the playwright, excited because of the difficulties between the Actor's Equity Association and the theatrical managers, and concerned for fear the poor author would fall in ruins between them: Here, too, Jesse Lynch Williams, a compiler of Why Not? and Why Marry? Clayton Hamilton, rescued from Hollywood and the motion pictures but apparently still interested in them; Robert Stead, President of the Canadian Authors' Association; William Rose Benet, planning, doubtless, to put poetry into the movies...
...Dyer Anti-Lynch bill provides that culpable state officers and mobbists shall be tried in Federal Courts on failure of State courts to act, and that a county in which lynching occurs shall be fined $10,000, recoverable in a Federal Court...