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...said he was a family man. To his draft board in Poinsett County, Ark. he presented a letter...
Encouraged by Socialist Thomas and Professor William R. Amberson of the University of Tennessee, who interrupted his noteworthy researches into artificial blood transfusions (TIME, July 23), the Poinsett County share croppers last summer formed a protective association, The Southern Tenant Farmers' Union. Program: no evictions; no forced trading at plantation commissaries; direct payment of reduction benefits; representation on all agricultural control boards; co-operation of white and black share croppers. In spite of further evictions for Union participation, in the face of ostentatiously armed "plantation riders," the Union now numbers...
...because he had been calling Negroes "mister." And as an instructor in FERA's adult education service, he had been mixing Karl Marx with the ABC's. He was quoted as saying he was willing, if share croppers were not fed, to "lynch every plantation owner in Poinsett County." Clapped into jail, he was speedily brought to trial, convicted of "anarchy." He has taken an appeal...
Died. Vice Admiral Joel Roberts Poinsett Pringle. 59. Commander of Battleships, onetime president of the Naval War College, slated as next Chief of Naval Operations; after being taken suddenly ill during maneuvers off the Washington coast (TIME. Sept. 26); in San Diego, Calif...
...father was a dashing French emigré (Charles Frémon) who ran off with his mother. Reared in the best Charleston, S. C., society, Frémont was a quick Latin and Greek scholar. People thought he might make a teacher or a preacher, until Joel R. Poinsett (manifest destiny man, Secretary of War, giver of the poinsettia to botany) put him in the Army Topographical Corps. He explored in the upper Mississippi and Missouri Rivers, returned to Washington, D. C., with a reputation, was also pointed out as "the handsomest young man who ever walked the streets...