Word: colemans
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Negro to appear on the floor of a legislature south of the Potomac River and converse with its members is, for most Southerners, unthinkable. Yet last week the South Carolina Senate, sitting at Columbia, permitted it to happen. The Negro was Green Coleman, 88-year-old inmate of the Charlotte, N. C. almshouse. Accompanied by Mayor Wearn of Charlotte and a white delegation, he asked to be heard because he was, he claimed, a South Carolina State Senator in the carpetbag days from 1872 to 1876. The South Carolinians were not entirely willing to admit his claims; State records...
Wearing a cutaway, striped trousers and congress gaiters, carrying a silk hat and a hickory stick, "ex-Senator" Coleman went grinning on to the floor, assisted by two young Negroes. There he answered questions: "I was born July 7, 1845 and belonged to Mr. Ely Coleman at Chester." His pay as Senator: "It was regular. I got some more when I voted fuh some of the bills." Prohibition: "Now on this prohibition question I'm all right. . . . Fuh two reasons. Fus' we needs a little liquor and second, dem what wants it gits it whether they buys...
...President Roosevelt to the U. S. Naval Academy's Board of Visitors for 1934-35 were Presidents Rufus Bernhard von Kleinsmid of Southern California; Kenneth Charles Morton Sills of Bowdoin; Marion Luther Brittain of Georgia Technology; Charles Russ Richards of Lehigh; Ralph Earle of Worcester Polytechnic; William Coleman Nevils of Georgetown and Dean Harry Ellsworth Clifford of Harvard Engineering School...
...Association Building. Publisher Cerf's lawyer, Morris Ernst, who makes a specialty of fighting censorship cases, contended that he had yet to find a single instance which proved that reading any book had led to the commission of a crime. Assistant U. S. Attorney Samuel C. Coleman asked the court not to regard him as a "puritanical censor," said he found "ample grounds to consider Ulysses an obscene book." Fat, bald-headed Judge Woolsey who spent his vacation last summer on Ulysses, puffed a cigaret in a long holder, admitted that "reading parts of that book almost drove...
...accepted in the trials are as follows: C. Arrowsmith '37, G. Brown '37, J. Budryk '37, C. Cimmino '37, V. Clive 1L, W. Coleman 1G, B. Corson '37, R. Dine '37, A. Ellison '37, T. Everett '37, A. Fujine '37, F. Glike '37, G. Grob 2G, G. Hughes '37, L. Hunter '37, R. Kalteuborn '37, E. Labes '37, J. Ladd '37, D. Lindsay '37, E. Morgan '37, E. Packard '37, M. Rogers '36, O. Rogers '36, E. Shaw '37, J. Shimer '35, W. Smith '37, and A. Sweetser...