Word: maryland
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Mason & Dixon line between Pennsylvania and Maryland (and its westward extension under the Missouri Compromise of 1820) once divided free States from slave. It still divides the North from the South on Negro treatment. Last fortnight portly, grey-wooled Oscar De Priest crossed it for the first time since he took his seat as the only Negro Congressman (from Illinois). He addressed 5,000 blacks at the Lexington (Ky.) Colored Fair...
Charlottesville. Most vivid of the week's events was a debate between Prohibition Commissioner James M. Doran and Maryland's Governor Albert Cabell Ritchie...
...outside New York, received reports that 15 of them were "dangerously overcrowded." The percentage of population over capacity in important local prisons was: Indiana State Prison, 79%; Eastern Penitentiary, Pennsylvania, 77%; Nebraska State Penitentiary, 61%; Missouri State Prison, 42%; Rhode Island State Penitentiary, 31%; Kentucky State Prison, 31%; Maryland State Prison...
...from batteries of cameras and prying reporters anxious to gather material on the sayings and actions of assembled geniuses. As each wore a large identification tag bearing the name of his state, they soon found this an easier means of appellation than remembering proper names. "Oregon" compared notes with "Maryland"; "New Jersey" told "Kansas" about Manhattan, for "New York" himself was from Utica, had never seen New York City. Soon they decided to form a club, "The Edison 49ers," to meet every ten years...
...youth, he can play any position except the pitcher's, was used at third base (his favorite spot), in the outfield and at catching before settling down in his present position. Player Foxx went to the Athletics in 1924 from the Easton Team of the litle Eastern Shore (Maryland) League. Last year (the first in which he played more than 100 games) he batted .328. This year he has joined...