Word: state
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Suddenly last week the U. S. threw an arm of protection about Citizen-Killer Harris, removed his case from the State to the Federal courts. Private Oklahoma citizens inquired how this could be done as Harris was no dry agent. U. S. District Judge Edgar Sullins Vaught put his fingers over his lips, whispered: "Private Government regulation...
...bullfrog-voiced Tom Shaw began his career as a half-time hand in a cotton mill. He became the most ruggedly potent figure in British textile trade unionism. He recently turned up in the Empire's new Labor cabinet as His Majesty's Right Honorable Secretary of State for War. Last week generals fumed, colonels smarted, and subalterns rolled out rich round oaths-all because War Minister Shaw, at a rally of Socialist constituents, had bellowed what they considered mollycoddle sentiments respecting Egypt. To a British fighting man Egypt is the last country on earth which the Empire...
...Bernheimer has been a man of many projects and activities. One of his accomplishments was his revision in 1913 of New York's state banking laws, which have not been amended since. His boast was that no private bank had failed since the revision became effective. However, the law does not cover all forms of banking. While he was absent digging in the Southwest, the unsupervised banking house of Clarke Bros., Manhattan, failed for $5,000,000 (TIME, July...
...There, too, were the English Misses Ivy Hawke, Joan Brunton. Molly Parker and Connie Gilhead-channel swimmers all. There, too, fattest, most bulbous, most famed, was Mrs. Myrtle Huddleston (240 lbs.), who last year remained afloat for 54 hours in a Bronx pool, finally being pulled out in a state of limb-swollen collapse. Worthy water-mates for her roamed also about the beach-an Egyptian, black and gigantic, named Ishak Helmy and a German whose name everyone forgot. All then, male and female, proposed to swim to Dover-and back, said Fattest Myrtle; but the press of France...
Then, when a whiteman forger and thief stole $140,000 of State money and was pardoned after serving four years of a five-year term Editor Harris wrote: "Mule Hicks, an ignorant 17-year-old Negro, stole a mule worth less than $100. He was sentenced to serve twenty years at hard labor. After serving twelve years he was still in the chain gang, and as a result of his treatment attempted to escape. He was convicted of murder and sentenced to hang, although not a witness saw the killing. Mule Hicks is a Negro. Who cares...