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...working as an office boy in a steel company in his native Coatbridge, Scotland. He came to the U.S. in 1927, dug ditches, wrestled iron castings in a New Jersey foundry. But Marshall really wanted to be a minister, finally studied three years at Columbia Theological Seminary, Decatur, Ga. In 1937 he became pastor of the New York Avenue Presbyterian Church in Washington. Ten years later he became Senate chaplain of the Republican 80th Congress, was re-elected in the Democratic 81st...
...last week, Amy Mallard was probably as unpopular in Toombs County, Ga. as her husband Robert ("Big Duck") Mallard had been before he was lynched. The lynching had caused a lot of trouble and almost everyone thought that was Amy's fault. Big Duck had been a "real uppity nigger"-some said he even wanted to be called mister-and most of Toombs County thought he'd gotten just what he deserved...
...chairman of the House Armed Services Committee, Rep. Carl Vinson (D.--Ga.), has said he does not want to take up UMT while the draft is on. And Rep. Adolph J. Sabath (D.--Ill.), chairman of the important House Rules Committee, has come out against...
...night in September a fiery cross was burned on the lawn of the old governor's mansion of Milledgeville, Ga. (pop. 6,800), once the capital of the state. In the mansion lives President Guy Wells of the Georgia State College for Women, where a group of Negro college educators was meeting. They were frightened out of town. Fortnight ago three men were arrested after a Negro's house was shot up, and there was talk around town that night riders had been driving Negro families out of the county. Such terrorism caused Georgia's oldest weekly...
Holiday Spirit. In Fort Benning, Ga., after explaining to authorities that he took a ship from the Canal Zone instead of an airplane, Pfc. Merry Christmas was forgiven for reporting two weeks late...