Word: barfield
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Edmond Barfield of Atlanta, president of the National Association of Handicaps: abolish the Supreme Court...
Hunter or Hunted? In Gonzales, Texas, Robert Lee Brothers ran a baffled lost & found notice in the local newspaper: "The hunter who left his shoes and shotgun in a creek bed in the George Barfield pasture can reclaim said articles if he tells me, if possible, what he was after or what was after...
...Cleve Barfield, well-to-do kaolin mine operator, has his mind on another man's wife and an ancient legal injustice when he is jockeyed into the thankless job of captaining what looks like the town's losing battle against the river. Twenty years before, one of his Trafford in-laws had been mysteriously murdered. Later, a luckless Negro, pawning the dead man's watch, was arrested, tried, convicted and, strangely, given only a life sentence. Now a Yankee journalist named Vitner is carpetbagging in Fredericksville, poking into this old case, trying to fit the pieces...
...Battles. As the high water crests along the levee, Barfield finds himself waging two battles, one against the flood, the other against Vitner. That he manages to win both with no loss of personal integrity is due as much to the dogged skill of the engineer in charge, whose wife he coveted, as to Vitner's secret softheartedness with flesh & blood people in trouble...