Word: v
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Thus ended the case of the People of Mississippi v. Charles Shepherd, Negro. The case began when one Sergeant J. B. Duvall, guarding prisoners in a Parchman, Miss., convict camp, whipped Negro-Convict Shepherd. Bruised, angry, the black convict entered the Duvall home, attacked Ruth Duvall, 18, onetime beauty-contest winner. Interrupted by the unexpected arrival of Sergeant Duvall, the Negro took a butcher knife, cut the Sergeant's throat, then plunged the knife down the throat he had just slashed. Next he struck the body with an icepick, hitting the back of its head so violently that...
...This competition got under way last week when the Caronia and the President Roosevelt left New York. Cuba-bound, on the same day. The Caronia is more costly than the President Roosevelt, is also not so fast. But the Caronia has a bar. First trip results between speed v. alcohol showed 240 passengers on the wet Caronia, 204 on the dry Roosevelt...
...many departments, many activities, that Postmaster General New, for instance, would have no official reason to be grieved if every U. S. citizen went to Cuba on a British ship. Meanwhile, however, reports that the mail orders were reprisals against Cunarders persisted, named T. V. O'Connor, chairman of the U. S. Shipping Board, as the probable source of the "discrimination." Mr. O'Connor is, of course, vitally concerned with the Cunard competition in the Havana tourist trade. Also, he has invited U. S. shipowners to attend a marine conference in Washington (opening Jan. 23), to discuss methods...
...there the golden wage is payed by representatives of the various Mohammedan sects. No fool, the Aga Khan keeps fat. Also he is at pleasure to stand in with the British Government,* which pays him privily a fat subsidy for his good offices among the Mohammedan subjects of George V, Last week at Delhi, the splendrous new Capital of British India, it was His Highness the Aga Khan who presided as Chairman of the All Indian Mohammedan Conference (TIME, Jan. 7). On the agenda was a momentous question. Should the assembled Mohammedans endorse the demand that India be given...
...Home Secretary was said at Buckingham Palace to have offended Queen Mary by what she considered the "levity" of his public allusions to George V's condition. Since Sir William has the official duty of presiding at and certifying royal births and deaths, the British public look to him as the highest political authority on His Majesty's illness...