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Spring's forest fires struck in an unexpected quarter. Anticipated next summer and autumn were lightning, cigaret and even faggot-set fires in the vast tinderbox of the Northwest, which is as vulnerable to incendiaries as Japan's papery cities. But the late April-early May fires in the East were a flank attack...
...Rope & Faggot, which he wrote in France on a Guggenheim Fellowship in 1927-28, Author White maintained that the long tradition of U. S. vigilantism has finally narrowed down to the Southern Negro, not to protect Southern womanhood as was usually claimed (he found rape charged in less than one lynching in five*), but to shackle and harry a growing economic competitor. Rope & Faggot also maintained that lynch law dated back to Colonial days when a Quaker named Charles Lynch sat as magistrate in an extra-legal court at what is now Lynchburg, Va., to try horse thieves...
...with his year of freedom: Stephen Vincent Benet (John Brown's Body which won a Pulitzer Prize); Playwrights Lynn Riggs (Green Grow the Lilacs) and Paul Eliot Green (The House of Connelly); Walter Francis White, secretary of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (Rope and Faggot: A Biography of Judge Lynch); Linus Carl Pauling, Langmuir Prize-winner (scientific research); Arthur Holly Compton. Nobel Prizewinner...
sirs: TIME has brought two delightful experiences me within recent weeks for which I am grateful. One of these was caused by the excellent, impartial review of my book on lynching, Rope, and Faggot, which appeared in the ssue of June 24; the other by TIME'S printing n the July 8 issue of letters from below the Smith and Wesson line threatening me with ynching, tarring and feathering and other courtesies. Such solicitude and statements as Mr. Eldon O. Haldane's that ''the well balanced Southerner hopes that lynchings of Negroes will increase rather than...
...ROPE & FAGGOT: A BIOGRAPHY OF JUDGE LYNCH?Walter White?Knopf...