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...they clinched the franchise for Negroes. These acts were the proclamations of Johnson's Secretary of State William Henry Seward and Grant's Secretary of State Hamilton Fish, three-fourths of the States having notified the Secretary in each instance that they had ratified the 13th, 14th and 15th Amendments to the Constitution...
Confederate leaders were granted amnesty. Chicago burned down; Ed Stokes shot Jim Fisk. Secretary Seward died. Charley Ross was kidnapped; Steve Brodie jumped off Brooklyn Bridge; the Maine blew up. And on Feb. 12, 1901 Delaware ratified the 13th, 14th and 15th Amendments to the Constitution...
...shot Stanford White ; the 16th, 17th, 18th, 1 9th and 20th Amendments to the Constitution were ratified; Charles A. Lindbergh Jr. was kidnapped; Cordell Hull became Secretary of State. And on April 8, 1935, Delaware's Secretary of State solemnly notified Secretary Hull that Delaware had ratified the 13th, 14th and 15th Amendments to the Constitution...
Once a stocky mountain-climber named Achille Ambrogio Damiano Ratti, Pope Pius XI is at 77 in good health, except for a slight diabetic condition. In February he celebrated the 13th anniversary of his accession to the Chair of St. Peter. He has thus outreigned his two immediate predecessors, Benedict XV and Pius X, who respectively died after eight and eleven years in the Papacy. But Pius XI must marshal his health for many more years to equal the longevity of two other Popes of the century past, Leo XIII who lived 93 years, died in 1903 after...
Though the show made no attempt to rival the historic Persian exhibitions in London's Burlington House (TIME, Jan. 12, 1930), it did offer a comprehensive outline of Persian illumination from its great period of Chinese and Mongol influence in the 13th Century to its degeneration at the end of the 17th Century. It gave gallery-goers some understanding of the feeling that prompted the 15th Century Shah Ismail to lock his favorite miniature painter Behzad in a cave before going to war with the Turks; that made Persian merchants value one line of perfect script at one gold...