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...Originally the colors of Marcus Garvey's Back-to-Africa movement in the early 1920s, they are now used by Ron Karenga's US movement, the Black Panthers and many young black students...
...strong political overtones-Sacco and Vanzetti, Alger Hiss, the eleven Communist leaders in the 1949 Dennis case. Undoubtedly a greater share of the blame for the breakdown rests on the defendants than on the judge. Still, Boston Attorney Herbert Ehrmann, who defended Nicola Sacco and Bartolomeo Vanzetti in the 1920s, says of the Chicago trials: "The conduct of the judge and the actions of the defendants were all disgraceful. The whole episode was a disgrace to American justice." The American judicial system as a whole is far sounder than the trial suggested. But few events have put that system...
...Russians were heavy drinkers long before the Revolution, and Communism has not changed that. Lenin & Co. learned as much when, in an effort to conserve potatoes and grain, they continued a World War I liquor prohibition into the mid-1920s; during one six-month period, the Soviet militia uncovered no fewer than 75,296 illegal stills. Since then, sales of vodka, profits to the state and the number of chronic alcoholics have all grown right along with the population. The Kremlin does not publish official statistics, but one count of Soviet souses in 1965 put the number of heavy drinkers...
...Apostles has been a traditional criterion for presidential selection. In the meantime, he addressed himself assiduously to church work, rising daily at 4 a.m. for a period of contemplation before striding over to the church offices. A 13-month, 63,000-mile tour of mission territories in the late 1920s set the pattern of his global thinking; terms as Counselor to two successive Mormon presidents, Heber J. Grant and George Albert Smith, brought him more and more into top-level decisions. When Smith died in 1951, McKay became ninth president of the church and, according to Mormon theology, the only...
...Patman's Switch,* Texas, the son of a struggling farmer. He earned enough money as a sharecropper and insurance salesman to take a law degree at Tennessee's Cumberland University. As district attorney in Texarkana, his present home, he so energetically attacked vice and gambling during the 1920s that a squad of Texas Rangers was sent to protect him from underworld assassins...