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...days the Rev. Claude Williams, asked by the Southern Tenant Farmers' Union to preach Weems's funeral sermon, left Memphis accompanied by Willie Sue Blagden, Memphis social worker, to investigate Weems's death and gather material for his obituary. At Earle, they were seized by vigilantes. Parson Williams was given 14 thumping whacks with a mule's belly strap. Then Willie Sue Blagden got four solid clouts. Governor Futrell and the local sheriff protested that the Weems "funeral" was only propaganda, that Frank Weems was still alive, but their pooh-poohing paled beside a published photograph...
...domain unless some scapegoats were hanged. For some unexplained reason, Kidd did not try to implicate his backers, who for their part sacrificed him without a qualm. So Kidd's life was ended at 56, and his immortal notoriety begun. At his execution he shocked the attendant parson by being "inflamed with Drink, which had discomposed his mind, that it was in a very ill frame...
Appointment of a parson and a rabbi to help Rev. Frederic Siedenberg. executive dean of the Jesuit University of Detroit, mediate Detroit's pandemonium of sit-down strikes was not the only thing which reminded observers of the medieval dance mania last week as they watched the U. S. Sit-Down epidemic of 1937 spread out across the land. From Salem witchcraft persecution to Ku Klux Klan, from Gold Rush of 1849 to Bull Market of 1929, the U. S. has shown itself no less subject than its sister nations to seizures of mass hysteria. The Sit-Down last...
Danny came to the dusty little Southwestern town of Vrain as a waif. A good-natured mechanic took him in, gave him a job. The local parson worried about Danny's education, but nothing was done about it till Professor W. Winston ("Dubya-Dubya") Burlington came to town on a forensic wave of Armistice Day patriotism, took Danny under his wing...
These facts came to light and U. S. preachers, welfare workers and lawmakers beat their breasts last week because, on a backwoods road near Treadway. Tenn., a hillbilly parson named Walter Lamb had joined in wedlock Hillbilly Charlie Johns, 22, and Eunice Winstead, 9 (TIME, Feb. 8). Newshawks sought out Parson Lamb, a husky, red-headed Baptist living with his wife in a two-room cabin in Hancock County, only county in Tennessee which has no telephones, no telegraph, not a foot of paved highway. Said Preacher Lamb, who for some years has lived only a mile away from...