Word: manne
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...LOST," but who beat him? Joe Frazier? Not to the world outside of the buttons, not even to many people on them. As they see it, Muhammad Ali was no more beaten by Frazier than Jack Johnson was beaten by Jeff Willard. What beat Johnson was the Mann Act (which was made retroactive to obtain his conviction) and the continuous psychological and economic war of attrition waged against him by the white world. The only difference in Ali's case is a refinement of technique...
...nightclub, the Cabaret de Champion, outfitted in classical opulence, with a Rembrandt in its valuable art exhibit. In a passionate display of righteousness that must have overdrawn their moral account for the next half-century, the Chicago authorities closed the club. To substantiate the case against him under the Mann Act, white women, some of whom had never even met Johnson, took bribes and testified against him. Johnson was convicted, then the ruling was overturned. But, in the interim, Johnson had jumped bail and fled to Europe...
...wrote Novelist Thomas Mann in a letter to his brother nearly 60 years ago. Now that symbol of permanence is gone. For 300 years, Munich's storied brewery horses made daily deliveries of Löwenbräu beer to inns in the old part of the city. Pulling up to 50 huge wooden kegs behind them, they managed to slow traffic through Munich's narrow streets to a clippety-clop, but the townsfolk rarely seemed to mind. Encountering a horse-drawn beer wagon had become a good-luck omen, on a par with seeing a chimney sweep...
...What we need is a new participatory movement for the spring, to be brought to the various antiwar constituencies throughout the city," said Dick Mann, one of the Ann Arbor participants...
...gathering attempted to vote on a date for a regional conference, or "gathering of tribes," as Mann called it, which would formulate a definite program of Boston antiwar activities for the coming months...