Word: spacing
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...ointment" [TIME, July 18] have you seen fit to mention our courageous Jew, Charles A. Levine. Like the rest of the prejudiced press you have devoted columns and columns to Lindbergh, Byrd, Chamberlin and other Nordic flyers. To Levine you have grudged even the iotas of space required by sheer force of his importance. This looks like discrimina tion to me. Is this discrimination? I think it is! Mr. Levine has fled the unfairness of the newspapers of our country. It has been an added discouragement in the face of already drastic odds against tricky Frenchmen who will not honor...
...Indian. He could neither read nor write, but he easily satisfied his humble needs by laboring occasionally for 50c a day. In 1898 the U. S. Government allotted to him 160 acres of land. That was good, he thought?a place all his own for his shack?plenty of space for roaming?maybe there was a little easy money in the land, in spite of its rocks and sterile soil...
...miraculously, it was averted." The greater part of the Committee's 5,000-word resolution was taken up with a recital of alleged political irregularities by the Opposition; but tucked away in one clause was an important concession to them. This provided that Opposition publicists will be given space in the Stalin-dominated press to state their views for six weeks, prior to the annual session of the All-Union Congress of Soviets, next December...
...something else. He wrote two more pieces about Messrs. Sacco & Vanzetti. The World refused them print. Readers asked why. Ralph Pulitzer, son of the late Joseph Pulitzer through whose genius the World grew famed, signed a statement. He caused the statement to be published at the top of the space daily allotted to "It Seems To Me" by Heywood Broun. The statement was headed REGARDING MR. BROUN. it ended: THE World THEREUPON EXERCISING ITS RIGHT OP FINAL DE CISION AS TO WHAT IT WILL PUB LISH IN ITS COLUMNS OMITTED ALL ARTICLES BY MR. BROUN. (Signed) RALPH PULITZER.- Editor...
They sent him to the Union College of Law (later part of Northwestern University) in Chicago and he led his class. The Illinois Superior Court engaged him as deputy clerk. He was chief clerk within seven months but soon accepted space and a smaller salary in his uncle's office to practice privately. In boisterous young communities the demand for good lawyers is second only to the demand for doctors and, perhaps, masons and carpenters. When the Chicago fire wiped out the property of others it only ignited the reputation of Elbert Gary as one of the shrewdest...