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...Crescent City, Fla. in 1889, the son of a Methodist preacher, he made his name as founder-editor of the crusading Negro Messenger. For his opposition to U. S. participation in the War, he was officially branded as the "most dangerous Negro in America." Once he received a threat on his life in the form of a bloody human hand, mailed from Louisiana...
...cheering section behind them. They promptly invoked against Japan three articles of the League Covenant: 1) famed Article Ten, under which League members "undertake to respect and preserve as against external aggression" other members; 2) Article Eleven, which binds League members to act in case of "any war or threat of war"; and 3) Article Seventeen, which in all the history of the League had never been invoked before. This last provides that "in the event of a dispute between a Member of the League (i. e. China) and a State which is not a member of the League...
...last week of July 1914, when the U. S. was still as isolated journalistically as it was politically, the threat of war in Europe was not even considered a contributing factor in the stockmarket's desultory decline. Then the unthinkable happened. In swift succession the great European markets closed their doors, and the selling of an entire world, hysterically trying to convert securities into cash, concentrated on the New York Stock Exchange. Bravely the governors announced their determination to keep open, but on the morning of July 31, after one look at the overnight accumulation of selling orders, they...
...jobless WPA workers who belong to David Lasser's Workers' Alliance, produced no whiff more deadly than that of Brigadier General Hugh Johnson, retired, who editorialized in his Scripps-Howard column: "It seems to be intimidation of the Legislature by a tiny minority using the silent threat of incipient riot. Their leaders . . . just want to use a lot of hungry and desperate suckers as demonstration puppets and they are more pleased than not when the poor boobs get all bloodied...
...recordings (TIME, Jan. 4). And haggard President Joseph N. Weber of the American Federation of Musicians has threatened a national musicians' strike if record and radio people do not do something about unemployed A. F. of M. musicians (TIME, Aug. 9). Last week the strike was still a threat, with the A. F. of M.'s deadline moved from Aug. 14 to Sept. 16, but in the important matter of "canned" music there was some action...