Word: negroes
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...pastime is it to expose transgressions of city officials and gangsters in the Chicago neighborhood. Samuel Goldberg, East Chicago grocer, had told the Federal grand jury "too much." Uneasily he confided to Federal officials that he had been threatened by members of the East Chicago police force. Then a Negro friend of his persuaded him to go for a stroll. He was "put on the spot," plugged full of gangster bullets. There armed citizens stood guard night and day to prevent a general witness massacre...
...Nutley, N. J., John Harris, 25, Negro care taker, took a joy ride in his employer's limousine, was spotted and chased by traffic cops. For five minutes he sped, the police shooting at him. Then he bumped a light in front of a gas station, caromed into an alley, demolished a tree. In the darkness he slunk home, where police found him huddled in a clothes closet, popeyed, a rabbit's foot in each hand. He had also swallowed his tongue...
...streets, charged two pins for seats at plays in his cellar, made $3.75 by playing the harmonica in a public hall at prices of 15 and 25 cents. With a recommendation from Phineas Taylor Barnum, a family friend, he secured his first regular part, that of an aged Negro, in a melodrama at the old Philadelphia Museum (1877). He has since appeared in 325 plays, directing 33 of them. He was leading man for Mme. Modjeska (see p. 44), once supported Edwin Booth. His daughter, Cornelia Otis Skinner, is a famed monologist. One of Actor Skinner's chief rivals...
Engaged. Philip Aaron ("Phil"') Edwards, 24, Negro, onetime captain of the New York University track team, joint holder of the American intercollegiate record for the half-mile and member of the 1928 Canadian Olympic Team at Amsterdam, the son of a British Guiana magistrate, to Miss Edith Margaret Oedelschoff, 19, German, of Weehawken...
...then find himself owing eleven francs because of huge taxes. Other Londres observations: 1) in French Africa a white man who strikes a black gets fined 25 francs; 2) native Africans practice true communism; 3) all Europe's old clothes and junk are sold to Africans; 4) the Negro is a football between African commerce and politics; 5) Senegalese World War veterans keep letters from French women addressed: "To my Mamadon! To my Sambo! To my dear black...