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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...South was also Melancthon's riding with the Klan, or, retching, watching the castration of a Negro. It was Storekeeper Casper Fleming, who used Melancthon as a war-haloed decoy to swindle poor whites out of their land in a railroad hoax. It was his own conscience when, realizing the hoax and achingly needing money, he had to decide what to do. More dubiously, the New South was his brother's ice-hearted, erogenous widow Rachel, willing to back the hoax, eager to watch men die, dallying with a nincompoop Yankee officer whom Melancthon felt a need...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Men From the South | 8/10/1942 | See Source »

...Died. Casper Warren Briggs, 96, pioneer maker and distributor of magic-lantern slides; in Atlantic City. His "slip slide," showing figures that moved across a background, was one of the earliest forms of the motion picture...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones, Jul. 20, 1942 | 7/20/1942 | See Source »

...junior, he won the Richard P. Parker scholarship for "high character and ability," and he now holds the Casper H. Burton, Jr. scholarship...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: MacKinney Given Francis Burr Award As Outstanding Senior Class Scholar-Athlete | 11/17/1941 | See Source »

Positions are now open in the Government service for junior administrative technicians, business analysis, and economist, A James Casper, head of the College's Defense Advisory Board, announced today. They pay $2,000 a year to start...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Advisory Board Will Examine Technicians | 10/24/1941 | See Source »

Matters has replaced Eugene D. Keith '42 as the Yardlings' upperclass representative, and Douglas Mercer '40 has taken the place of Casper W. Weinberger '39, who has graduated from Law School, as secretary of the Union...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Red Book Committee Will Pick '45 Editors This Week | 10/7/1941 | See Source »

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