Word: money
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Blacks outnumber Whites by almost nine to eight. Where there are nine Black Men to eight White Women, the People is apt to find excuse for making an occasional example. Meanwhile the State of Mississippi took no proceedings against its People. Governor Bilbo said he had neither time nor money to investigate 2,000 persons. A coroner's jury, looking into the death of Negro Shepherd, decided that he had died from "causes unknown...
...need of money for the new gymnasium, the Stadium question, and the expansion of the athletics-for-all policy were the main topics treated by Mr. Bingham in the course of his speech. In spite of the fact that the full quota necessary for the construction of the new athletic plant has not yet been reached, he stated that work on the gymnasium would be carried on as rapidly as possible...
...note would seem to be the return for the money--the dance itself. If the dance is good enough, the expense will have little effect on the numbers. Now the requirements for a good dance are a good hall and a good orchestra. Memorial Hall would dampen anyone's enthusiasm. Why not have the Prom at some attractive ballroom? If the Gaydon Club can afford it, certainly the much larger Junior Class can afford it. It seems to me that an announcement by the 1930 Prom Committee of a good orchestra in a good ballroom would do much to revive...
...most--interesting of the recent sales has been that of a perfect copy of Dickens' "Pickwick Papers" for $28,000. If money can be considered a criterion of any value, it apparently indicates in this case that the plump little Mr. Pickwick still does not fall to cut a favorable figure, while the Messrs. Weller and Snodgrass empty the wine keg. Such characters as these are too well established in literature to be dislodged by any trifling fancies of the time...
Since the Corporation had unanimously endorsed the erection of a University Church, though not subscribing to it, the Committee decided to go ahead with the money that has already been received. It is rumored that the old Fogg Museum as well as Appleton Chapel will be torn down to make room for the Memorial, but the architects, who are Coolidge, Abbott, Shepley, and Bullfinch of Boston, refused to divulge definitely the new chapel's location...