Word: florida
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Since post-Reconstruction days, Negroes have been excluded - for one reason or another - from Democratic primaries in Texas, Alabama, Mississippi, Louisiana, Florida, South Carolina, Arkansas " and Georgia. During the past 17 years, usually with prodding by the N.A.A.C.P., the U.S. Supreme Court has passed on four cases designed to abolish "white supremacy" in Southern voting. Three times the determined South has been able to retain its white poll supremacy. In last week's ruling, the fourth, the Court said: Dr. Lonnie E. Smith, Negro dentist of Houston, must be allowed to vote in Texas' Democratic primaries. Hastily...
...basic issue of white rule, no major Southern politician raised a dissenting voice. In thunderous harmony (marred only by a few plaintive newspaper editorial writers) Southern thought was in favor of keeping the Negro in his traditional place. Florida's New Deal stalwart, Senator Claude Pepper, had been having great difficulty in his primary race for reelection. Now, liberal or no liberal, he hopped nimbly on the bandwagon: "The South will allow nothing to impair white supremacy." Said Louisiana's Senator John H. Overton: "The South, at all costs, will maintain the rule of white supremacy...
...Green. Old Abigail Brooks served hot chocolate to the minutemen coming home from the Revolution's first engagement. A Brooks was a general at Valley Forge, and later governor of Massachusetts.* Other Brookses spilled their blue blood against the British at Lake Erie, and against the Seminoles in Florida. But the Saltonstalls fought in 1812 and 1861; one was cited for gallantry in the Civil War, as commander of an unseaworthy ferryboat converted into a gunboat...
...stomach. So long as he took his medicines, he kept going. But on trips he often forgot. After the London and Moscow Conferences in 1941, he had to be rushed to the Naval Hospital in Bethesda. He returned from Teheran and Cairo worn down and sniffling, went to Florida to rest, wound up last week in Rochester...
Last week Chuck Luckman was in Manhattan, en route to a Florida conference with Albert Lasker. He had just signed up Charlotte ("So Long Letty") Greenwood for his summer radio program while Bob Hope, "Pepsodent's No. 1 property," is on vacation. Luckman says: "Without looking I can tell the seasons of the year and the Crossley ratings just by the tone of Hope's voice when he phones me for a raise...