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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...London had appeared news dispatches from Editor William J. Makin, of the Jamaica Standard, formerly editor of Pearson's Weekly. Wrote Editor Makin: "Starvation and abject poverty stalk this land. . . ." To heated Laborites' inquiries about Jamaica's "horrible conditions" in Britain's House of Commons young Malcolm MacDonald, Secretary for the Colonies, answered: "I am not satisfied with the position in Jamaica and the West Indies generally...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: Empire Day | 6/6/1938 | See Source »

...time when the class can honor men with distinguished records in the college. As the Sophomore elections have gone, so the Freshman ones will go. It is to be regretted that the Council did not take this chance to render a useful service to the University. ED THREE--MAKIN GAWR HUMANE...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: EVADING THE ISSUE | 2/11/1938 | See Source »

...raise her up right," gangling Groom Johns declined $500 for newsreel poses, oiled his shotgun, muttered about "furriners" coming into the mountains, exploded: "They're a-sayin' they're goin' to take Eunice away from me. They're a-sayin' the law-makin' men in Nashville is makin' a law sayin' my marriage ain't legal. They've scared Eunice to death talkin' about sendin' her to reform school. I'm that pestered I can't plant my tobacco crop nor git no work done...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: What God Hath Joined | 2/15/1937 | See Source »

...cabin and took Grammy with him. Soon afterwards he went away on the "underground," trying to "make free." But it was the "blind underground"; a few days later he was found in a swamp with his head bashed in. Grammy grew up with a horror of "makin' free." And he liked the plantation life. He was smart with mules and horses, like his daddy, and quickly rose to be the most responsible slave on the place. After the usual amount of pleasuring he settled down to married life with Penny. The Civil War never seemed real to Grammy...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Makin' Free | 9/18/1933 | See Source »

...much to do except feed him a few lines. Lively Lupe Velez, having abandoned most of the Mexican accent she affected in Ziegfeld's Hot-Cha, spends most of her time shaking herself at Funnyman Durante, which calls forth from him the bitter remark: "Now they're makin' me a juvenile...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Theatre: New Plays in Manhattan: Mar. 13, 1933 | 3/13/1933 | See Source »

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