Word: states
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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With a congress of men of the type of Senator W. F. George of Georgia, the Constitution will be amended so as to cure the 65-year old wrong done the Southern people. The way should be opened to State legislation against the Negro. There is no longer excuse for evasion...
...letter of Thomas T. Gill in the issue of June 24 and your footnotes appended, concerning license tags on cars, was interesting. He named three States (your footnote adding another) designating their tags as front and rear, and likewise the three States had laws banning the teaching of the theory of evolution in state-aided schools. I wish to add that Kentucky also has the front tag designated as front and the rear designated as, "Kentucky for Progress." The last motto is a standing joke among Kentuckians and many motorists have been fined for mutilating their tags to obliterate this...
TIME, elliptic, meant that there is as yet no basis in law for the application of the Tinkham Amendment, which aimed to exclude from the Reapportionment count inhabitants of states whose franchise has been denied or abridged (i. e., Negroes in Southern states). No Southern state yet stands legally convicted of such denial or abridgement...
...Washington one day last week journeyed the four U. S. members of the Reparations Commission-Owen D. Young, John Pierpont Morgan, Thomas William Lament, Thomas Nelson Perkins-to inform their government what, as private citizens, they had accomplished at Paris. First they drove up to the Department of State in a taxicab, went in to call upon Secretary Stimson. After a long wait their taxi-driver grew impatient, suspected his four fares of stealing away to escape the metre charge, went in and told a guard they were "dead beats." Emerging after two hours, the four Reparation Commissioners crossed...
When, last fortnight, J. P. Morgan & Co. announced a merger of three potent New York State power companies (TIME, June 24), only New York Staters were deeply interested. When, last week, final approval of the long-pending merger of Continental Oil and Marland Oil companies was interpreted as first step in a national Morgan oil corporation, public interest was wider but still quiescent. But also announced last week was a Morgan-managed merger of Fleischmann Co., Royal Baking Powder Co., and E. W. Gillett, Ltd.* At that the country sat up and took sharp notice...