Word: oneness
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Mayor Newbegin of Tacoma was glad he remembered that fact because Tacoma (pop. 110.000 ) badly needed light, badly needed power. Cushman Dam which supplies water for the city-owned plant was dangerously low. Where four inches of rain had fallen last October, this October fell less than one inch. Abandoned private steam plants were prepared for operation. Housewives had to be told to cut down on current. Only every other street light burned at night. Electrical signs were shut off. The lights on the tower of the city hall went dark for the first time in 30 years...
...convicted poultrymen face a maximum sentence of one year in jail, $5,000 fine. One wily poultryman, hoping for a light sentence from Judge John Clark Knox, named his newborn son John Clark Irwin Rosenstein...
...midnight in the District of Columbia jail & asylum, the middle of the night for most convicts, the beginning of a new day for one, the beginning of the 200th day since he entered jail for contempt of court and the U. S. Senate. When the hour had struck, he, No. 10,520, stepped out to the prison yard and once more became Harry Ford Sinclair, a free oilman...
...One night the village fife & drum corps, after band practice, stopped in front of the Fleming house to bedevil its occupants. Lewis Collier, Alloway's postmaster and band leader, vainly tried to quell his bandsmen. Out of the house stormed Mrs. Fleming. "I've had enough of this!" she screamed. Drawing a gun from her bosom she shot Postmaster Collier through the chest...
Last year ten Negroes were lynched in the land. Mississippi killed half of them. Louisiana and Texas ran neck and neck for second place with two each. Missouri brought up the rear with one. With five weeks of the year to run, the 1929 score of Negroes lynched stood last week at nine (Florida, three; Mississippi, two; Alabama, North Carolina, Tennessee and Texas, one each), when out of Texas came grisly news of another lynching. But this was a special lynching and did not alter Texas' position on the Black List. Instead of a Negro, the Texans lynched a white...