Word: springing
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...turn last week in South Carolina. At the suggestion of Governor Richards, the solicitor of Florence County re-examined Mrs. Maude Collins, about 60, a white trash woman whose testimony sent Ben Bess, a prosperous Negro farmer, to prison in 1915. Mrs. Collins had signed an affidavit this Spring confessing that she testified falsely to jail Ben Bess. On the strength of this affidavit, Governor Richards had pardoned Ben Bess in May. The re-examination of Mrs. Collins was to find if she had committed perjury (TIME, June...
...decision over the Eli first year men and is consequently a heavy favorite in tomorrow's meeting. This year's 1931 combination is probably the best polo team to represent the Harvard Freshmen since the establishment of polo as a sport at the University. The Freshmen have twice this Spring defeated the first University group and have maintained a splendid record throughout their winter and spring schedules...
...100th anniversary of the death of Franz Peter Schubert, the citizens of his birthplace, Vienna, arranged to hear his music. Herr Franz Schalk, conductor of the state opera, directed a splendid performance of the Symphony in C. In the public square, 40,000 people, completely silent in the late spring sunshine, gathered below the musicians to listen. President Michael Hainisch, with his hat off and his white hair blowing, made a speech...
...Viking Press, rounding out its third year of publishing, announces an interesting list of books scheduled to appear next Fall Ford Madov Ford is contributing a new historical romance. "A Little Less than Gods", and T. F. Powys follows up his "Mr Weston's Good Wine" of this Spring, with a group of short stories The little blue volumes of "Sakis" short stories which are beginning to recover and enlarge upon then pre-war popularity in England will receive another addition next fall...
...barely possible that; the wily Republican leaders are holding back this asset to spring after Houston has nominated Al Smith. Or maybe Mr. Hoover will retire to the country side to take a few secret lessons from the champion fly-caster of the world. There is even a possibility that the bent pin and the tin can of worms may be called into play at the strategical moment to swing the farmers into line...