Word: westing
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Dean's life work, the Back-to-Africa idea is not new. Paul Cuffee returned twelve slaves to West Africa, and their Liberia, founded 1822, was the first great movement. Bishop H. M. Turner, until Booker Washington silenced him in the '90s, advocated all U. S. Negroes to follow. Captain Harry Dean's call, issued at the turn of the Century, did not reach the race in a broadcast manner and was even less successful than the short-lived Black Star Line of Jamaica's Marcus ("Black Moses") Garvey, who was deported from...
...whom Adviser Scofield considered worth while. Some of the Dial's feats and features were: D. H. Lawrence's long short-story, "The Man Who Loved Islands," Arthur Symon's obituary estimate of Thomas Hardy; the first pages of Oswald Spengler's "Decline of the West": The last words of Anatole France; new verse by Amy Lowell, Carl Sandburg, e. e. ("lower case") cummings; contributions from George Saintsbury, Maxim Gorky, Thomas Mann, T. S. Eliot, Ford Madox Hueffer...
...famed Manhattan theatres-Daly's and the Century-were last week included in a parcel of real estate bought by Building Brothers Irwin S. and Henry I. Chanin. The entire block bounded by Broadway, Central Park West, 62nd street and 63rd street, sold for $12,000,000, will be the site of a 65-story office building. The Century was dedicated in 1909 as a great national theatre where Art was to prevail over Commerce. But Art lost so much money that Commerce finally took over the theatre, where Morris Gest produced Aphrodite and The Miracle. No details...
Active, vigorous, fast-moving, the Chanin Brothers have made many a contribution to Manhattan's new midtown skyline. Their Chanin Building "56 Stories of Sunlight" has been completed for only a few months. In April, they bought the Majestic Hotel, Central Park West, between 71st and 72nd streets. Here they will soon begin a 45-story apartment hotel...
Harvard's mounts will be shipped to Philadelphia on Thursday and the team will follow on Saturday. The Crimson cohorts first match will be on June 22 with the winner of the West Point-Princeton game. If victorious in this match Coach Sharp's men will battle the winner of the Yale-P. M. C. tilt on June 29 for supreme honors...