Word: slaving
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...agile, soft-spoken old Negro, who has mounted his pulpit in Washington's 19th Street Baptist Church every Sunday for 52 years, is Dr. Walter Henderson Brooks. Once Dr. Brooks was a slave. Emancipated at 14, he entered Presbyterian-owned Lincoln University near Oxford, Pa., at 15. A gift of $500 from some Pittsburgh Presbyterians enabled him to go through college and theological school, start out on a career which has made him the best known of Washington's many Negro preachers. Last month came a proud day for Dr. Brooks when he wrote to Lincoln's white President William...
...surplus had been eaten by Depression. The Metropolitan directors, under Chairman Cravath, had twice voted to beg publicly for money. Their appeals had brought forth life-saving cash but also sharp criticism of Gatti's administration: he was oldfashioned; he was a reactionary, a slave to routine; he was unwilling to experiment with new ideas for scenery and staging...
...sand, and kept at a constant temperature of 25 degrees. The master-clock itself, a three foot copper cylinder surmounted by a glass bell, encloses a tripod which supports a long steel pendulum; the air within the cylinder has been exhausted to 1-40th of an atmosphere. A slave clock (with a more prosaic appearance) electrically synchronized with the master every thirty seconds unlocks and resets the two-gram weight which provides all the energy needed by the big pendulum...
...their plot on the broad back of a beguiling rascal named Asa ("Ace") Burdette (Fred Stone). "Ace" has been a fiery leader of "Jayhawkers," those bellicose sons of the Middle Border whose ropes, pitchforks and rifles kept Kansas abolitionist because they did not want the agricultural competition of cheap slave labor. A noted boozer, tobacco-chewer and wencher, sly "Ace" is first seen confessing his sins to a camp-meeting audience so he can mount the rostrum and persuade the good folk to elect him Kansas' first Senator in 1861. He is elected, goes thoroughly jingo when the first shell...
About two years ago she was arrested in Atlanta, Georgia, with five other union organizers, on a charge of inciting to insurrection, based on a law of 1861 designed to prevent a slave rebellion. These "Atlantic Six" are now out on heavy ball. Because of Miss Burlak's deflant challenge to the existing order, and the support she is able to win from her audiences, she has acquired a fairly thorough knowledge of the United States penal system, and mention of her name produces a startling effect upon any member of a "radical squad...