Word: minden
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Divorced. Franklin Delano Roosevelt Jr., 34, third son of the late President, newly elected Representative from Manhattan's 20th Congressional District (see NATIONAL AFFAIRS); by Ethel du Pont Roosevelt, 33, socialite heiress to a Du Pont chemical fortune; after almost twelve years of marriage, two children; in Minden...
Clinton M. Richie, Minden...
Having just read about the lynching in Minden, La. [TiME, Aug. 26] ... my Southern blood is boiling...
John Johnson had been a soldier in Europe, but in Minden the whites had figured he was a "bad nigger"; he got drunk and was uppity. Three weeks ago, a white woman said she saw him and a young Negro named Albert Harris trying to get into her house."She shined a light and they ran away. The sheriff picked them up and took them to the red brick Webster Parish jail. Along about dusk a couple of nights' later he let them go because nobody had filed any charges against them...
...took six days for the story to get out -because, the sheriff said, an investigation was being made. But nobody had seen anything, not a thing. The sheriff and the prosecutor didn't know any more than anybody else. Minden dozed complacently...