Word: southerners
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Roosevelt, who had carefully avoided Prohibition in his own speech, characterized the Wickersham proposal as "speculative" and moved across the ballroom to take a seat among the Dry Southern Governors. Observers got the impression that, as a Presidential candidate for 1932, he had already commenced to "play safe" on this issue...
...other by TIME'S printing n the July 8 issue of letters from below the Smith and Wesson line threatening me with ynching, tarring and feathering and other courtesies. Such solicitude and statements as Mr. Eldon O. Haldane's that ''the well balanced Southerner hopes that lynchings of Negroes will increase rather than decrease'' amply prove, it seems to me, some of the main contentions of Rope and Faggot-the inherent lawlessness of certain parts of the United States and trigger-on." :k propensities to defend positions which are morally, ethically and practically indefensible...
...Mendell, 30, of Los Angeles and Roland B. Reinhart, 29, of Salem, Ore., listened for 246 hr., 43 min., 32 sec., to the steady roar of an old Wright Whirlwind motor, regulate 1 the controls of an old Buhl air sedan called the Angeleno, and soared, soared, soared over Southern California. When they had been up 175 hours, one hour longer than the last World's record (TIME, July 15), a great crowd gathered at the Culver City airport set up such a hullabaloo that "talkie" directors on nearby lots had to stop work. The soarers sent down messages announcing...
...American International Airways (U. S.) sent its flagplane Southern Star down the west coast from Panama to Santiago, demonstrating to Latin-Americans that an-other U. S. line might compete in that territory...
...National A. A. U. There, waiting to beat him, were Eddie Tolan, little bespectacled Negro from the University of Michigan and Western Conference champion; Frank Wykoff, defending A. A. U. champion; Claude Bracey, 1928 N. C. A. A. champion; Russell Sweet, Pacific A. A. U. champion; Cy Leland, Southern Collegiate champion. But George Simpson never ran. Two days before the race which somebody christened "the century of the century," practicing, he sprinted 50 yards, fell on his face. He had pulled a tendon. On the sidelines he stood two days later and watched the others...