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...Southerner, a recently published book in which he excoriated the stultifying influence of racism on the South, Georgia Congressman Charles Longstreet Weltner warned: "The South can lose again, just as we have lost for the past century. If Jim Crow is our goal, and equal justice our enemy, the South will lose...
...bank officer, Executive Vice President Longstreet Hinton, interpreted Lament's message as a confirmation of rumors, which had been circulating for days on Wall Street, that Texas Gulf had struck an ore bonanza near Timmins, Ont. Between 10:45 and 10:59, Morgan Guaranty bought 8,000 shares of Texas Gulf for its accounts, including 3,000 shares for the Nassau County (N.Y.) Hospital. Morgan Guaranty paid between 321 and 34 for stock that rose to a high of 37 that day (last week it closed...
...telephoned Longstreet Hinton, head of the bank's trust department, some ten minutes after the press conference ended and told him to look at the broad ticker tape for something about Texas Gulf," the statement said...
...been a long while since a Dixie Democrat expressed such sentiments in the House of Representatives. The fact that Charles Longstreet Weltner, 37, a Representative from Georgia, did so last week was partly a testament to his integrity. Even more, it was a result of the South's changing political climate, in which the Negro vote is increasingly important. Weltner represents an Atlanta district, and its 105,000 Negroes-of whom 57,000 are registered voters-are the reason why he is in Congress...
...been shot off at the hock . . ." How You Are Envied. "Then there was a lull, and we knew that the rebel infantry was charging. And splendidly they did this work-the highest and severest test of the stuff that soldiers are made of. Hill's division . . . and Longstreet's came as the support, at the usual distance, with war cries and a savage insolence as yet untutored by defeat. They rushed in perfect order across the open field up to the very muzzles of the guns. But they met men who were their equals in spirit and their...