Word: reporter
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...much for lynch-floggings. Last week Robert R. Moton, head of Tuskegee Institute, published a report on lynch-killings. In 1925 there were 16 lynchings. In 1926 there were 29 lynchings. This is exclusive of a lynching which took place in Florida on Dec. 27. Some men with acetylene torches bored through the lock of the county jail at Waldo, Fla., found a Negro, George Buddington, 55, in the corner of a cell. A white woman had owed Buddington money for a long time, Recently, intoxicated, he tried to collect it with a pistol in his hand . . . "or something shiny...
...thus far employed in solicitation of money front the graduates. R.H. Field '26 was appointed last year agent for the class of 1926. It is interesting to note that his class, which during the period of active solicitation was in its Senior year, is listed in the First Annual Report of the Council as the class having the largest number on contributors to the Fund for the year. Before the meeting of January 25, it is expected that the Agent for the class of 1927 will be appointed...
...every five people in the country. Seven states registered more than a million cars each-New York (1,818,765), California, Ohio, Pennsylvania, Illinois, Michigan and Texas. Nevada has fewest: 23,933. Many Busses. To motor bus manufacturers and operators, the statistics of an Interstate Commerce Commission report that appeared last week were pleasant. There are in the U. S. 22,368 busses listed as common carriers. They operate over 352,800 miles of roads. Also there are 45,417 motor trucks in the transportation business, serving 611,921 miles of roads. The trackage of all the U. S. railroads...
...general breakdown, following a severe cold. Nephew of Painter-Inventor Samuel F. B. Morse he attended Yale, rowed on the 'Varsity crew, graduated in 1862. Student for the ministry, he was persuaded to become religious editor (1867-69) of the New York Observer; wrote for it a report of a meeting of the Y. M. C. A (then a struggling fledgling) which won him an official position with the organization; became eventually (until 1915) general secretary of the International "Y," preceding John Raleigh Mott. His grandfather, Jedediah Morse (1761-1826) was the author of the first U. S. work...
There is still an opportunity for Sophomores to come out for second assistant basketball manager, it was announced by the management yesterday. Candidates should report at the Hemenway Gymnasium today at 7.30 o'clock...