Word: southern
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...further news about the relations between Southern blacks and whites...
...which take away the breath even of those who see him frequently. Having just disposed of a question about the international difficulties of preserving the scenic beauty of Niagara Falls, the President blandly announced that he had found a memorandum on utilities left with him last November by Commonwealth & Southern's Wendell Willkie (TIME, Dec. 6). At that time Mr. Willkie had a long talk with the President, leaving him with a brief, specific plan for composing their difficulties...
...Greene, a cousin of Alabama's Representative Sam Hobbs, persuaded the mob to disperse he was soon explaining to the Associated Press. "I told them I was the aggrieved person," said he, with some self-satisfaction, "and I ought to have the final say. I also reminded them our Southern Senators were fighting an anti-lynching bill in Washington and violence might hamper them...
...since complete records began in 1882. There have been lynchings in every State in the Union save four?Massachusetts, Rhode Island, New Hampshire, and Vermont. But if the practice has been general, the opposition to laws intended to suppress it has centred in the South. For two generations Southern Representatives and Senators have greeted every lynching bill that came up for debate with a reaction as sharp and unfailing as would be produced by a polecat. Snorted Georgia's Richard Russell last week of the latest and one of the most threatening Federal attempts to prosecute and punish lynchers: "Skunk...
...compare the achievements of Vanderbilt, Gould, Morgan, Rockefeller with those of Fugger, Colbert, or the Bickers of Holland; to measure familiar swindles and honest accomplishments against ancient examples. U. S. millionaires compare well in both respects with their predecessors. Squelched at first by the landed gentry, then by Southern aristocrats, U. S. businessmen wielded their power openly only for a brief period after the Civil War, until their corporations grew so vast that "like kings of Egypt, the later businessmen were buried under their own pyramids...