Word: manne
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Coal. Isaac T. Mann, president of the Pocahontas Fuel Co., reported that agreement was being reached among some 80 soft coal operators in Virginia and West Virginia for the consummation of a $200,000,000 merger...
...Monday, June 4 I purchased a copy of TIME and was delighted to find under the section devoted to Religion a story about the appearance on the platform of Kansas City, of Jack Johnson, former heavyweight champion of the world, colored and convicted violator of the Mann Act. I was delighted because I had been scoffed at by Methodists for saying that I had seen an item concerned with the same speaker in a local daily. Here at last, I felt, was proof of the actuality, for I and others, place much faith in the verity of TIME...
Died. Dr. William Mann Irvine, 63, headmaster of Mercersburg Academy, Mercersburg, Pa., for the past 35 years; of cerebral hemorrhage; following his collapse a week ago at the commencement exercises of the school...
...prohibiting Sunday golf, great is the outcry. Laws have been passed in Porto Rico prohibiting cockfighting on Sundays and on every other day. But there is no outcry, except among the politicos. The politicos lately passed a bill repealing their harshest prohibition. Last fortnight Governor Horace Mann Towner vetoed the act and repeated that cockfighting is "a barbarous and cruel sport." But people said the law would not matter one way or the other. The jibaro pays no attention, saving his breath for the secret pit, the dashing fury of his little bird, the hot argument or epic narrative afterward...
...author's genius is undeniable in the earliest story, "Little Herr Friede-mann," the stark, pathetic account of a hunchback, whose reasoned contentment is shattered by his sudden love for a flashing Valkyrish woman. Her cruel scorn for his declared love drives him to drowning himself ludicrously?head in the river, feet on the bank...