Word: futrelle
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Year ago the U. S. press carried an ugly tale: near Earle, Ark., when a picket line of sharecroppers was broken up by a mob of vigilantes, a Negro named Frank Weems had been beaten to death. Within a few days the Rev. Claude Williams, asked by the Southern Tenant...
Quick to pooh-pooh the furor over the Earle assault was Arkansas' tobacco-chewing Governor Junius Marion Futrell. Negro Weems's "funeral," he sputtered, was only strike propaganda. Negro Weems, he had been informed, was still alive. Though he failed to produce the missing Negro, Sheriff Howard Curlin...
Arkansas had proclaimed a state-wide "President's Day" to celebrate the only visit, except one by Roosevelt I, which it ever had from a U. S. President. The President alighted at Hot Springs, shook hands with Governor J. Marion Futrell and a delegation of distinguished citizens who promptly...
"Names make news." Last week these names made this news: On his new 80-acre farm near Broken Bow, Oklahoma's onetime Governor William Henry ("Alfalfa Bill") Murray roused himself from a night's sleep on the cabin floor, cooked breakfast over a fire in the front yard...
Last week Mr. Couch gave a house party at Couchwood. George B. Shaw and W. Alton Jones of Cities Service dropped from the skies in a great glistening white monoplane. Governor Futrell of Arkansas and a few ranking members of the State's judiciary were already on hand. From...