Word: sentinel
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...charges of raping two white girls (TIME, June 22, 1931; Nov. 14, 1932); a change of venue to Decatur. Ala. and a defense motion to quash the indictments on the ground that no Negro had been a member of the indicting grand jury. Editorialized Scottsboro's Jackson County Sentinel last year: "A Negro on a jury in Jackson County would be a curiosity, and curiosities are sometimes embalmed...
Into town moved Publisher Martin Andersen of the Orlando (Fla.) Reporter-Star and Sentinel, a 16-page stereotype press, five linotype machines, an INS wire. The presses and linotypes were left over when Publisher Andersen's two Orlando plants recently combined. With this equipment Publisher Andersen began putting out the Times (evening). His backer is Charles Edward Marsh of Marsh & Fentress, a Texas chain which has employed Publisher Andersen for the past twelve years. Most of the old Register staff have been employed by the Times. Publisher Andersen will motor the 550 mi. between Orlando, where...
...72nd Congress should be unexpectedly called into special session next week, the Senate as well as the House would be Democratic. On paper the Republicans lost control of the upper body last week when Colorado's Governor Adams appointed Democrat Walter Walker, newspaper publisher (Grand Junction Sentinel) to the vacancy caused by the death of Republican Senator Charles Winfield Waterman. Present Senate lineup: Democrats, 48; Republicans, 47; Farmer Laborite, I. Enveloped in legal uncertainty was the question of whether Senator-designate Walker would take his seat Dec. 5 or whether Colorado would elect a short-term Senator in November...
...Editor Charles E. Lounsbury of the Rocky Mountain News for libel. He sued not because of any mean things said by the News, but because of things which the News said had been said by Walter Walker, retiring Democratic State Chairman and hard-hitting publisher of the Grand Junction Sentinel. Chairman Walker had made a speech in behalf of Governor William H. Adams before the Jane Jefferson Club, women's political organization, in Denver's rococo Brown Palace Hotel. Part of his speech, as reported by the News, charged the Post and Publisher Bonfils with foully thwarting...
...purple and mauve along the quiet walks. A rampart of hills slope toward the sunset, and their sides are covered with the flower called the torch azalea, whose scentless beauty can teach the Vagabond more than all the sages can. Further on there is a valley where the sentinel pines stand black against a setting of green leaved oaks and hemlocks. There is also a brook, and horsemen clatter over the wooden bridge that bestrides it. A group of boys are sailing boats in a duckpond, and the birds retreat to the far end, haughtily ignoring the invasion of their...