Word: platee
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...appealing to Henry Ward Beecher, already famed as an anti-slavery speaker. Learning that "Pinky's" owner valued her at $900, Beecher staged the "auction," raised $1,100 in excess of the amount needed. One of his hearers, Authoress Rose Terry, put a ring in the collection plate. Dramatic, Dr. Beecher slipped the ring on Pinky's finger, cried: "With this ring I thee wed - to freedom!" After her freedom had been purchased, "Pinky" went to live with a Brooklyn family, was re-named Rose Ward, dropped from the public eye. Later she went to Washington, graduated from...
...Sweringen brothers (Oris Paxton & Mantis James) last week presented a revised arrangement of their railroads to the Interstate Commerce Commission for approval. As in the case of the Nickel Plate System plans, disapproved last year by the I. C. C. (TIME, March 15, 1926), Henry W. Anderson and George S. Kemp of Richmond, Va., who represent Chesapeake & Ohio minority stockholders, are opposing the Van Sweringens now. Hearings may last a year?as they did in the Nickel Plate System case...
Vaness Co. controls Nickel Plate...
...Nickel Plate controls Chesapeake Corp...
...lampoon hit the ball squarely and sometimes beyond home plate, the fielding, though ragged in spots, was on the whole determined and vigorous, but nothing could stop the sheer power of the CRIMSON willow wielders--willow wielders who felt that they were being cheated of their rightful score their tradition bound prerogative...