Word: states
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...state what are the facts, to wit: that two of the negro employees of the Pittsburgh Terminal Coal Corporation, who were returning to their homes from work, were fired upon by a party known to be a striking miner, one of the negroes being, wounded; that, upon his being taken to his home, a number of negroes in the camp, enraged thereby, started a retaliatory move against the strikers, and that, after this fracas was over, one of the negroes, at the point of a gun, was compelled to sign a so-called confession dictated to suit the purposes...
TIME, unpredictable, printed nothing concerning a matter which would interest many of its readers. ... I refer to a recent issue of the Penn State Froth, which was a parody on TIME. In this parody the opportunity was taken to "razz" many of the pet aversions of the student body as represented by the Froth Staff. It appears that many of these aversions happened to be faculty men-or higher. Not obscene, it was not forbidden the mails, nor was the sale of it in the college prohibited. But-and I have this from a student-the editor was asked...
...several dozen others. Mrs. Rockefeller fancies Japanese art, about which the President knows little. For entertainment there were cinema scenes of Alaska. . . . Two nights later, the President, still alone, received some 2,000 Army, Navy and Marine officers and their wives, at the White House. It was the last state function of the year. Marching into the drawing room, President Coolidge gave his arm to Mrs. Dawes, while Mrs. Kellogg stepped up to accompany the Vice President, and on down the line. . . . Governor & Mrs. John H. Trumbull and Miss Florence Trumbull, of Connecticut, spent a night at the White House...
...University quintet decisively repulsed the invading contingent from the Pine tree state in Hemenway gymnasium last night with a score of 53 to 25. A good passing attack gave Harvard an early lead. At the end of the half the score stood 32 to 10. With this lead many men were used to finish the game, piling up a lead on the weakening University of Maine forces...
...University of Maine basketball quintet will be a visitor at the Hemenway Gymnasium tonight at 8 o'clock. Coming here with an inexperienced team and a poor record, the visitors are rated as the underdogs in tonight's contest. Their last two games have been lost to Rhode Island State and Worcester Technology, but they have displayed steady improvement and will have their full strength with which to confront the Crimson tonight...