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Please, Gov'ner Neff, be good an' kind, An' if I can't get a pardon, will...
...time? If I had you, Gov'ner Neff, like...
This plea, crooned in a soft baritone over the twanging of a cracked and patched guitar, once swayed Texas' Governor Pat Morris Neff into granting a pardon to the coal-black, swampland Negro who sang it. The Negro, Huddie ("Lead Belly") Ledbetter, self-styled "King of de twelve-string guitar players of de worl'," had been sentenced seven years before for murdering another Negro in a brawl over a woman. Out of jail, Lead Belly combined his career of gin, women and song with a job in a Houston Buick agency. Five years later, in 1930, Lead Belly...
...Brwon, Knesal is at the goal; Peck, rfb; Neff, lfb; Murdock, rhb; Bijur, chb; Church, lhb; Records, ro; Harrington, ri; Jackson, ef; Hooper, li; Sichel...
...company's history. Two days later Ford Motor Co. turned out the i.ooo.oooth V8, 1937 model, built in the U. S. since production started last October. C. For the benefit of bankers and investment houses generally, and of their law- yers in particular, scholarly Director Harold H. Neff of the SEC's Division of Forms & Regulations last week made public a complete lesson in brevity. Declaring that prospectuses for security issues were too long and gummed up with unnecessary legal verbiage, Mr. Neff cited a utility company's prospectus for an issue of first-mortgage bonds...