Word: racing
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...same length of time as that which has been accomplished by the Negro race in the United States since the emancipation proclamation. They have come up from slavery to be prominent in education, the professions, art, science, agriculture, banking and commerce. It is estimated that 50,000 of them are on the Government pay rolls, drawing about $50,000,000 each year. . . . Nevertheless, they are too often subjected to thoughtless and inconsiderate treatment, unworthy alike of the white or colored races. They have? especially been made the target of the foul crime of lynching. . . . The Congress should enact any legislation...
...Never in the history of our country has race and religious prejudice and corruption in public office been more evident...
...single social aspect of that race in '98 was a brief interlude while the riders descended from their wheels to watch Charlie Miller married at the track-side to Miss Genevieve Hansen of Chicago. He kissed his bride, remounted, rode to win. Elemental social manifestations . of this kind appealed to Charlie Miller as well as to the frowsy "bummers" infesting the upper galleries. In those days a frowsy bought one ticket and stayed all week; it was an inexpensive method of keeping warm; sociable and slightly alcoholic. Nowadays the new Madison Square Garden is cleared out early each morning...
Sport in Manhattan got on its bicycle last week and went in circles. 150,000 people paid cash to watch eleven two-man teams hurtle around an oval board track for money prizes in the six-day bicycle race...
...riders broke records and bones; the spectators screamed contentedly; one man was gloomy. He was Charlie Miller, winner of the last one-man six-day race, held in old Madison Square Garden in 1898. Charles Miller rode 2,007 miles in six days, taking nine hours, 15 minutes sleep. The winning two-man team last week rode 2,522 miles. When one grew tired he hopped off his wheel and went to bed, and his partner went riding on. When Charlie Miller tired he kept on pumping; he pumped until exhaustion so overcame him he fell off his cycle...