Word: manly
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...went through the corn and looked out. There was a man with a gun. He had on a hat and brown pants. ... I had a bag with me but I dropped it when I heard the shots...
...Lexington: "Now as to why I appoint only Negro youths to West Point and Annapolis. The black man has taken part in every war. . . . Until some white Congressman sees fit to recommend a Negro, I feel it my duty to recommend Negroes only, for through me is their only chance of gaining this opportunity...
...Harlem: "When I got to Congress and nominated my first candidate for West Point I picked the blackest boy I could find anywhere. My appointee has been writing disheartening letters. ... If the young man gets cold feet and quits West Point because of any racial discrimination, next time I'll appoint a bigger and blacker Negro...
When a careful man builds his house, he itemizes his actual expenditures-so much for land, so much for lumber, for brick, for cement, for hardware & plumbing. Last fortnight the Federal Power Commission, through its Solicitor Charles A. Russell, ordered power companies seeking U. S. licenses to construct plants along navigable U. S. streams, to exercise the same care and precision in estimating their construction costs. Reason: the U. S. has an option to buy back such licensed plants after 50 years and it refuses to pay an excessive price for them. The Russell ruling is designed to squeeze "water...
...shacks lives the Widow Kolesar, a dumpy little Slav who chars for her living and fills her four children's bellies with vegetables from their scrawny "garden." Her "old man" was killed while working on the railroad. Nearby lives the Klementovich family. Mother Klementovich is virtually a widow; her "old man" is serving a two-year term in jail for beating her. She works in the factory, tends chickens, takes in a boarder. There are four little Klementoviches...