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DONALD F. LYNCH...
...killers. Said the wool-hatter: "This is a white man's country and therefore the law is the white man's law. It is important that he live by it ... No decent white man, no real 'wool hat Georgian' will support murder and lynch violence...
...starting Kirkland lineup: le, Snow; lt, Brown; lg, Jameson; c, Lynch; rg, Read; rt, Ritchie; re, Eaton; qb, French; lh, Winters; rh, Thompson; fb, Glynn...
...decent citizens in the South condoned the night rides, the fiery crosses and the lynch mobs. No one but a fool condoned them. But what about the Negro's right to an education, a job? As far as Strom Thurmond was concerned, he would not deny the Negro the right to an education and a job. Thurmond had to accept a federal judge's decision that the Negro had a right to vote; 35,000 voted in the South Carolina primaries this year. The so-called Southern "liberal" went further: he would and did encourage the Negro...
...sell on the floor must own Stock Exchange seats, which are currently worth about $68,000 apiece (1929 price: $625,000). Some of the big brokerage houses, like Merrill Lynch, Pierce, Fenner & Beane, own a number of seats, while small houses with only two or three partners (and no branch offices) own only one. Since they work on a commission basis, most brokers were not getting rich until business picked up in this spring's upsurge. (Last year, Merrill Lynch, which did almost 10% of the Exchange business, netted $1,827,952; divided equally among the 81 partners...