Word: seven
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...served in the 55th and 56th Congresses from Tarboro, N. C. Before him there were 19 Negro Representatives and two Negro Senators. A majority of them were members of Reconstruction Congresses and men of small education. Ten, however, went to college; five were lawyers; others were preachers, teachers, planters. Seven were born slaves. Both the Senators were elected in Mississippi. Senator Hiram R. Revels filled an unexpired term in 1870-71. Senator Blanche K. Bruce served the full term of 1875-81. When last a Negro's voice was heard in Congress it was pleading chiefly to make lynching...
...Another cause of unrest in Southern bosoms was the defeat of Senator Fess, Republican Keynoter, for delegate-at-large in the Ohio primary last month, by E. W. B. Curry, a Negro. Mr. Curry stood fifth in the slate of seven delegates for Candidate Hoover, which defeated a Willis slate headed by Senator Fess...
...Seven Wives and 23 concubines of Marshal Chang Tso-lin, picturesque and barbaric Dictator of North China, recently included a thoroughgoing English woman and a slim young person from the U. S. The majority of Chang's wives and concubines are Chinese, but there are two Opposition factions made up of Japanese and Russians. Of late Dictator Chang is said to have paid more attention to opium than to his parliament of wives...
...been widely stated, that Their Majesties in purchasing clothes and personal effects, carried the goods away on credit and have not yet paid. It is true that they received numerous valuable presents from firms which hoped for further orders. Thus the German Lufthansa company presented to His Majesty a seven-seater three-motored airplane. Generally speaking the Monarch's circumspection in letting contracts or concessions may be considered as due to the fact that the securities market is not yet ripe for any investment in Afghanistan. As the country becomes gradually civilized-a process which King Amanullah is furthering...
...seniors answered the same examination paper (in next year's tilt a Yale paper will be given to both teams). The Harvard men did their writing in a classroom along with 140 other students. The same rules applied, except that the Harvard team was not allowed to smoke. Seven members held scholarships; one, Richard T. Sherman of Algona, Iowa, had been editorial chairman of the Harvard Crimson; another, Henry T. Dolan, suffering a fractured kneecap, took his examination in a hospital...