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...Republicans, with 91 delegates, elected as President Republican Chief Judge Frederick Evan Crane of the State Court of Appeals. To strike the proper non-partisan keynote, the convention then unanimously elected as Honorary President happy Democrat Alfred Emanuel Smith, a veteran of the 1915 convention. After a learned speech by President Crane on the virtues of democracy, the delegates, who will receive a $2,500 salary for their streamlining and hope to finish it by summer, recessed. Major streamlines suggested: a unicameral Legislature; replacing the present Department of Law under an elected Attorney-General by a department of justice under...
When Hillyer's set near Eliot or Crane...
Other members of the Committee elected this week were Hughes Call '39 and Gardiner Clark '39. John E. Crane '40, will be permanent Dance Committee Chairman...
Unlike most Negro writers, Wright is neither subjective nor sentimental. A few readers will find misleading resemblances to John Steinbeck. But a closer comparison is with Stephen Crane. Like Crane, who wrote his Civil War masterpiece, The Red Badge of Courage, without ever having seen a battle, Richard Wright has written the most powerful stories of lynch violence in U. S. literature without ever having seen a lynching. (He did, however, spend most of his first 17 years in Mississippi, which in all the U.S. has the worst record for lynchings: 591 out of 5,112 recorded since...
...Crane's imaginative compass, which held his story to a psychological true North, was the conflict between his hero's blind instinct for self-preservation and an impersonal war machine. The core of Wright's stories is the conflict between the Negro's instinct for self-preservation and an impersonal, unpredictable lynch machine. The sadistic, melodramatic physical details of his lynchings occur within an almost off-stage irrelevance. Their reality is the "white fog" of lynch terror which hangs over the Negro community, impenetrable to the brightest Southern sunlight. It is this central psychological core...