Word: masses
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...McKenzie, Fisk's President (TIME, Feb. 9). He had heard, even, of the more startling events which had taken place in the last Fiskal week. Fisk students, either encouraged to action by the sympathy of the alumni, or finding that their wrongs had become intolerable, held a mass meeting, indulged in declamations, shouts,'until interrupted by the police. Five leaders were led off, protesting, to the city jail of Nashville, there lodged. Next day, on charges of inciting to riot, they were tried in a courtroom crowded with black and white faces, sentenced to a suspended fine...
...obstreperous five Dr. McKenzie expelled. Feeling boiled against him. Undergraduates stated that there had been no riot, that the mass meeting had quieted long before the arrival of the police, that the names of the arrested students had been furnished to the police by Dr. McKenzie himself and were merely the names of men who had protested to the Board of Trustees in June against his policies. When, on the morning after the trial, students and faculty assembled for chapel service, a spokesman addressed Dr. McKenzie, declared that he must reinstate the five, or all Fisk students would "strike...
Another object of the expedition is to investigate the Sargasso Sea, a drifting mass of seaweed in mid-Atlantic, about the latitude of Florida and the Canaries and about the longitude of the Newfoundland Banks. It is only gradually being disentangled from the popular legend surrounding it, although Christopher Columbus himself ran afoul of it on his first voyage to America. It has been asserted that the weeds are so thick that they entangle whole ships which never escape...
Worcester, Mass...
...electricity"; in Devonshire, England, of a fall from a ladder. He was obscure, frequently destitute, a recluse in his cottage. His death notice was to many the first intimation of his existence. Died. John W. Alden, 77, direct descendant of John and Priscilla Alden, famed Pilgrims; in Duxbury, Mass. Died. Baroness von Vetsera, 78, mother of the beautiful Countess Marie von Vetsera, who, in 1889, was found dead with Crown Prince Rudolf, heir to the Austro-Hungarian throne, in his hunting lodge near Vienna; at Payerbach, near Vienna, where she lived in seclusion. Died. Edmund Plummer, 93, last...