Word: jim
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Mother was bit by a snake. Father was kicked by a mule and died from it. Husben No. 1, Judge Mitchel shot to death gambling in Florida. Left me with 2 children. No. 2 husben, Harvie Brown Rumelision was froze to death from drinking, left 2 children. No. 3, Jim Henry Johnson, home, Macon. G. A. died of Bright deces, left 10 children. No. 4 husben Shaw Lewis died with stroke diging wells, left 11 children...
...JIM'S PLACE...
...named five strokes, one of whom will be called upon to fill Chace's position. They are Bill Rowe, Barr Comstock, Jim Curwen, Colt, Wagner, and Jack Wilson...
There are about 177,000 Negro votes in Pennsylvania, enough in Jim Farley's estimation to be called a decisive factor in the Democrats' capture of the State two years ago. So it was of major interest when important Democratic Publisher Vann, who pictures himself as the guiding mind for most of those votes, last week exhorted all Pennsylvania Negroes to vote for Judge James for Governor and ignore the rest of both tickets...
...early as 1930 Publisher Vann sensed the changing political wind, shifted from Republican to Democrat. His subsequent rise under the wing of Senator Guffey lasted until two years ago when, at the Philadelphia national convention, Jim Farley learned that many a Negro preacher disapproved of Publisher Vann. Named in his place to lead the campaign of 1936 among Negroes was his distinguished friend, Lawyer Julian D. Rainey of Boston...