Word: nationales
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Rape was the charge against Curley Wright, Negro, when he faced a judge and jury in circuit court at Centerville, Tenn., last week. He was glad when 100 National Guardsmen arrived to cow a vengeful mob that threatened to lynch him. Complainant against him was Mrs. Zora Johnson Lynn, 55...
In the soft, wet soil of Arrowe Park, Birkenhead, where Scout tents had been bogged for a fortnight, Baron† Baden-Powell buried what he soon described as a golden hatchet. Next he handed round golden arrows, one to each national Scout leader. Finally beloved "B. P." cried in his...
In South Bend, Ind., hearing that the city zoo wanted a pair of bald eagles, two South Benders went afield and obtained two large, bald birds from a farmer named MacMillan. A patriotic judge fined Farmer MacMillan $13 for violating the Federal law against taking captive the National Bird. A...
Aged 41, became national secretary of the Episcopal Church Temperance Society. He was a vigorous Prohibitor and claimed to speak for the entire Church. No Churchman contradicted him strenuously. His Society purported to fight intemperance in drinking, drug-taking, eating.
Aged 54 (this summer), he forfeited his apartment lease, owing $2,083.35. He was fined $8,000 for plagiarizing part of his book Intestinal Gardening. He sued his wife for divorce at Reno, charging cruelty, and won. Five days later he married a Mrs. Vasilieff Safrom at an out of...