Word: racing
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...meet with Dartmouth and Cornell has been decided upon because of the difficulties experienced by runners in negotiating the Mechanics Building track. The track in the Armory has fewer laps to the mile and its corners are turned more-easily by a large group of men in a close race...
...Program of Nationalism is as important now as it ever was. ...The program I represent is not hostile to the white l race or any other race. All that I want to do is to complete the freedom of the Negro economically and culturally and make him a full...
Five years ago Marcus Garvey, orotund Jamaican, paraded through Harlem, the cultural capital of his race in the U.S., in uniforms brightly befitting "His Highness the Potentate of the Universal Negro Improvement Association and Provisional General of Africa." Then he became a janitor of Atlanta Penitentiary. Four years ago he was convicted of fraudulent use of the U.S. mails in selling the stock of Black Star LIne, by which he proposed to transport U.S. Negroes to their aboriginal home and for which he actually purchased a second-hand flagship. He began serving a five-year term...
...Boni & Liveright ($2.50). The Thesis. Nine years after the "war to end war," war is still a legal institution. Italy rattles her arms in France's ear; Great Britain looks at Japan and prepares Singapore; Japan, the United States and Great Britain engage in a naval armament race; Russia growls at Rumania; in times of peace everyone is making ready. But isn't war unthinkable? Would it be possible to prosecute another war successfully with the memory of the Great War's horrors so fresh in the minds of the people? War is always unthinkable-until...
Died. The Rev. Dr. Charles Fletcher Dole, 82, father of Pacific air race sponsor, James Drummond Dole (TIME, Aug. 22, et seq.); at Boston, Mass. While his son grew rich farming good Hawaiian pineapples, the Rev. Dr. Dole penned improving tracts: Early Hebrew Stories, Noble Womanhood, Jesus and the Men about Him, The Religion of a Gentleman, My 80 Years...