Word: south
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...South. Col. Horace Mann, undercover Hooverizer in the South, was allowed to withdraw last fortnight from further political operations when he failed to win the support of the Republican National Committee for his "lily white" movement (TIME, Feb. 18). He went out the same mystery man he had come in. The appointments of Messrs. Jahncke and Hurley to the sub-Cabinet were designed to relieve the South's disappointment at not being represented in the Cabinet. Mr. Jahncke, in particular, was a "lily white" appointment, as he had striven manfully against the rule of Walter Cohen, dictator of Louisiana...
...longer a Senator with a vote, but always a Grand Old Partisan, he said in an interview: "I am a tariff protectionist. I am sure the needs of the South will be given careful consideration in the drafting of the bill...
...South whites did not let Negroes handicap them in this curious competition. Both races committed practically the same number of murders. In ten Southern cities there were last year 731 killings, an average rate of 38.6 murders per 100,000. In the country's six largest communities the number was twice as great (1,513), the rate one-fourth as high...
Publisher Black. Baltimore's Publisher Van Lear Black was at Broken Hill, Northern Rhodesia last week, as urbane as ever, despite dismal rains. His two pilots and mechanic were hospitalized with influenza. The party flew south down Africa to Cape Town, is now working its way north...
...Commerce's air section, who is flying his own plane on a European air inspection junket, reached Berlin last week. There he inspected the great Tempelhof airport, visited the Rohrbach works, heard that the Germans this summer plan to operate air service from Germany to both North and South America...