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...women and seduced them incessantly, on the hills, in the streets, in the valleys, and particularly on the beaches; how the women didn't care a fig, and responded to the assaults in the grossest way. But under their rumpled beds lurked such killjoys as the Gastonia strike, antiSemitism, neurosis, a punch-drunk stockmarket and other cultural menaces. And so, at long last, a strong moral message ("Destructive violence must be fought-with constructive aggressiveness") soars across Father Haydn's sky like a flaming cliche...
...successive steps up the political ladder, he became his state's governor. In the four years he served he got things done, fixed the roads, paid the teachers, cut expenses, passed some social legislation, improved agriculture and even handled several nasty labor wars, including the bloody rampage at Gastonia...
Fred Beal is a Yankee who turned radical during his boyhood in the mill-town of Lawrence, Mass. His journey down the Marxist road, took him to Gastonia, N. C., where in 1929, along with other northern Communists, he organized and led a bloody textile strike. In a raid on union headquarters, Police Chief O. F. Aderholt of Gastonia was shot dead-whether by strikers or by drunken officers has never been conclusively proved. Convicted of conspiracy to murder, Fred Beal and six others jumped their $5,000 appeal bonds and fled to Soviet Russia. There one blossomed...
...Gastonia strike Prisoner Beal had oddly little to say last week. One of his prosecutors then was Clyde Roark Hoey, who as Governor of North Carolina now has the power to pardon Fred Beal. Lolling in the witness chair, Witness Beal declared that Party leaders deliberately made the trial a vehicle for Communist propaganda, inflaming the southern jurors and dooming the defendants. Afterward, said he, Communists in Manhattan worked their false passport racket, shipped him and his fellows off "to show the Russians by our coming that there was a bad situation in America...
...through Williamsburg, Author Daniels drove his Plymouth, wondering if he could locate in Warrenton the poker game that is said to have been going on ever since the Civil War, with hands descending from father to son. After he had driven through the textile towns of the Carolinas-Gastonia, Kannapolis, Spartanburg-he began to note the mansions of the Coca-Cola millionaires, and to speculate about their significance. "Wealth in the South," he must reflected, come "for those who sell in the South, must come from a cheap luxury...