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Died. Caroline Goodwin O'Day, 67, New York's Congresswoman-at-large from 1935 until she retired this winter; in Rye, N.Y. Georgia-born daughter of a wealthy planter, as a young woman she was a painter and magazine illustrator, turned to social work and New York politics after her husband's death in 1916, was a longtime friend of Eleanor Roosevelt. In Congress she was an all-out New Dealer and anti-war crusader, but voted aye on the declaration of war after Pearl Harbor...
Young Lawyer. Mississippi's Democrats were told by the Jackson Daily News that Franklin Roosevelt wanted grey-haired Senator Wall Doxey returned to Washington, that his opponent, hustling James Oliver Eastland, a wealthy lawyer-planter, was too critical of the Senate. The voters, themselves highly critical of the Senate, promptly sent 37-year-old Eastland there again-he had previously occupied Doxey's seat (for 88 days) as Governor-appointed successor to the late Pat Harrison...
Trouble also came from white planters of the region, who watched their cheap help skitter off the fields to get better jobs at the Army post. The planters referred contemptuously to "that nigger airport." A white planter telephoned that he would kill the first Negro soldier who ever again waved greetings to his womenfolk...
Died. Martha McChesney Berry, 75, "the Sunday Lady of Possum Trot," founder and developer of the famed Berry Schools for poor mountain children; in Atlanta. As the young daughter of a wealthy north Georgia cotton planter, she read stories to poor-folk neighbors, built (and taught in) first one log-cabin school, then another, next established a boarding school (now more than 1,000 students). She was one of the first modern educators to recognize the need for teaching crafts, one of the first to set up a work-and-study plan, saw her ideas widely copied...
...contrast to his smart, facile son Jonathan, wrinkled old Editor Daniels, in his black planter's hat and elder-statesman tie, was a figure who easily evoked oldtime reminiscences. A full-fledged editor at 18, he had tangled in many a garrulous crusade against North Carolina railroads, tobacco and power companies. Great pal of William Jennings Bryan (of whom he wrote an 8,000-word obituary in six hours) and a hard-shelled Dry, he banned liquor on Navy ships...