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...Less than one out of three Negroes lynched is even charged with rape of, or advances to, white women. White women have not half the attraction for Negro men that Negro women have for white men???say Negro men. Many a Southern gentleman had, and has, children by his cook. Author White points out that Southern white women themselves frown on lynching as a means of protecting their virtue, which Negroes protected during the Civil War, when white husbands were away. Lynchers, usually sexual perverts, seldom wait for confirmation of alleged attacks. A rumor, a whisper, a bloodthirsty suggestion...
Cornell has honored only two men??? the late Andrew Dickson White and David Starr Jordan. An unbaked tradition says that a cause for Cornell's not giving honorary degrees is the outcry that arose?in and out of Cornell but especially in?over Dr. David Starr Jordan's unflinching pacifism during the War. The fact is that Dr. Jordan, Cornell '72, was honored three decades before the War, in 1886, the same year as Andrew Dickson White, who helped Ezra Cornell found Cornell. Their university gave no honorary degrees between 1886 and the Jordan pacifism. Very early in its career...
They were each Chicago's big banks?the Continental & Commercial National Bank and the Continental & Commercial Trust & Savings Bank. They were owned by practically the same stockholders and led by the very same men??? the brothers Reynolds?George McClelland Reynolds the elder and chairman of the boards of both banks, and Arthur Reynolds, younger by three years and president of both. Practically, the same banks were one Continental & Commercial institution; legally they were separate, for until the passage of the McFadden Branch Banking act by Congress last session (TIME, Jan. 31), national banks might not function as trustees. Banks incorporated...
Funmakers. Another Manhattan lawyer, smiling P. St. George Bissell, was unanimously elected Chef de Chemin de Fer of the Quarante Hommes?Huits Chevtnix, funmaking Legion club named after the capacity signs (40 men???8 horses) stencilled on French box cars which used to take troops to the front...
...also the authority to commute their sentences to life imprisonment or to a term of years. In this last case the seven years they have already served would, of course, be counted in their favor. The Governor may also make any discrimination that he desires between the two men???for instance it would be legally possible, though highly unlikely, for him to pardon one of the prisoners and make no intervention on behalf of the other. The only limit on the Governor's authority is his inability to order a new trial...