Word: star
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Marcus Garvey, standing on his constitutional rights, continued to conduct his own defense in his trial for misuse of the mails in promoting the Black Star Line (TIME, June...
Among the witnesses called by Garvey were "Sir" James O'Mealley, a master of Calaba College, Jamaica (sent by Garvey as a delegate to the League of Nations), the Rev. Frederick Augustus Toote (a director of the Black Star Line), "Lady " Bruce, "Duchess of Uganda" (titles conferred upon her husband by Garvey), James Hercules (a boatswain of one of the Black Star Liners) and Amy Jacques Garvey (the defendant's second wife...
Witnesses told of a trip to the West Indies. The testimony was confused but there were apparently at least three occasions on which the Black Star ship was believed to be sinking. On one occasion there was an explosion and everybody "ran around in circles " until the engineer threatened to throw some of the passengers overboard. The next morning the passengers were awakened by the cry: "My God! Somebody's opened the sea cock." All hands were ordered to the pumps to save the ship...
Here * is a five-star, sporting-final edition of Utopia?subject, of course, to instant change without notice. All previous Utopias are cancelled; this is the very latest model?2,000 rooms, 2,000 baths and running iced nectar on every floor...
Woodrow Wilson: "A band began to play Dixie near my house. Mrs. Wilson and I went to the window and there was the Hejaz Temple (Shriner) Band of Greenville, S. C. I called: 'Will you play The Star Spangled Banner ?' They did, and it was reported that tears stood in my eyes...