Word: nathans
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Darlington, S. C., a Negro died, and was laid out, for the admiration of his friends, with a powdered countenance, among banked flowers. Seven little pickaninnies, graded like a flight of steps, from Nathan Ellison, a toddler of 18 months, to the big seven-year-old girl from next door, stood in a line on the pavement to watch the black box carried out of the house, and stared round-eyed until the last carriage had turned the corner. Then, the next-to-largest black boy gave a tremendous leap from the curb into the gutter...
Monk shook his head. Grave with a hidden purpose, he bent and whispered something. There was a tight cluster of wooled heads; every one was in the secret save toddling little Nathan, too young to comprehend...
...Shut up," Monk's voice was peremptory. He turned condescendingly to Nathan...
...moments the children emerged from the woodshed into the yard, bearing between them what was to all appearances the lifeless remains of small Nathan Ellison. They deposited their burden on the kitchen floor and adorned its limpness with two sunflowers...
Wall Street has its candidates- Nathan L. Miller, Dwight W. Morrow, James Augustine Farrell. Mr. Farrell, president of the Corporation since 1911, is the keystone of its organization, the pivotal point between the executive committee and the subsidiaries. He, a great steelmaker and foreign trader, could scarcely be spared from his duties. Mr. Morrow, lawyer and partner of J. P. Morgan & Co., is more available. Everyone knows that U. S. Steel continues to be an Morgan industry. Mr. Morrow is the astute friend of presidents (he is almost the chum of President Coolidge, was his classmate at Amherst; also President...