Word: austin
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Last year, to save trouble, only a few Negroes went to the Georgia polls to get the turndown they knew they would get. This time Dr. Austin T. Walden, Negro leader, announced a change of strategy. At Atlanta's primary, Negroes will be urged to go to the polls in large numbers...
...graceful, with a wide mouth, an upturned nose and large, haunting eyes - a goblin face. Her sister Lavinia was a village spinster, in her later years became cross, sharp-tongued, quarrelsome and grasping, with long black hair, broken, irregular teeth (mostly false) and dirty hands and fingernails. Their brother Austin married Susan, their school girl friend, a tavernkeeper's daughter. Susan soon became involved in a lifelong feud with sister-in-law Lavinia...
They fought over Austin and Emily. After Emily's death they fought 'over her poetry. When her poetry was published they fought over her letters. When her letters were at last published they fought over her biography. When Lavinia and her sister-in-law died, the fight was carried on by their supporters...
Both Stettinius and Nelson Rockefeller, with Mexico's Ezequiel Padilla and a small army of experts like Adolf Berle, Avra Warren, Oscar Cox, Leo Pasvolsky and Senator Warren Austin, won Latin praise...
...limiting the pledge to the duration. Senators Austin and Connally got around the necessity of immediate Senate approval (the President's emergency powers are enough). By promising to write the pledge into treaties and submit them for ratification later, the Senators gave the Act of Chapultepec a fair chance of becoming permanent policy...