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Dates: during 1930-1939
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First Black Legionary of note to be arrested after the twelve "Republicans" was balloon-eared, tight-lipped Ray Ernest, Jackson State Prison guard, reputedly a "brigadier general." With four others he was accused of lashing another WPA worker, of fatally flogging a fellow prison guard who had tried to withdraw from the Legion. While newspapers painted the complicated ritual in which a Legion neophyte was asked whether he believed in a Supreme Being, could ride, shoot, drink and lie, police announced that they had raided Ernest's Jackson home, found a metal-studded whip. Mrs. Ernest, claiming to have...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CRIME: Mumbo Jumbo | 6/8/1936 | See Source »

Because 12-year-old Cinemactor FrecU die Bartholomew earns some $1,250 a week in Hollywood, the Canadian Government announced it would withdraw his $180 annual pension, given him as a dependent of Father Cecil Llewelyn Bartholomew, who lost...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People, May 18, 1936 | 5/18/1936 | See Source »

...formula for the approach: "(To Customer) Do you smoke cigars? (Make motion towards pocket for cigar. If answer is negative or partly negative-bring out cigar and extend it to customer-but as customer tentatively reaches for it-withdraw it halfway, and pointing to the cigar, talk up some of its features...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business: Slow Smoke | 5/18/1936 | See Source »

...belonged to Karen Wright's (Miss Oberon) grandmother. When Mary Tillford (Bonita Granville), a problem child and granddaughter of the community's most prominent matron, fabricates a scandal about the conduct of her attractive young school-mistresses with handsome Dr. Joseph Cardin (Joel McCrea), rich mamas and papas withdraw their patronage. A libel suit to bring the matter out into the air miscarries, with the help of Mrs. Mortar (Catherine Doucet), and the fortunes of all three accused are ruined. So runs the tale, a very interesting and at times absorbing one. The mad little girl is beautifully palyed...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: The Moviegoer | 5/11/1936 | See Source »

Following a heated discussion at Phillips Brooks House last night, the Harvard Student Union defeated, by the close margin of 25-24, a resolution urging President Conant to withdraw Harvard's representative to the 550th anniversary celebration at Heidelberg University this June...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: H. S. U. DEFEATS BAN ON HEIDELBERG DELEGATE | 5/7/1936 | See Source »

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