Word: southern
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...will be easier to get them on the right track if you will correct it before it grows any more, and after the boost you give the picture there is certain to be a lot of talk about it. There surely are many Spanish-speaking natives of these southern countries right there at Rockefeller Center who would gladly inform you it is not pronounced "Wha-race," but "Whar-s"-first syllable strongly aspirated, followed by only the faintest sound of s through front teeth...
...small, Methodist Hendrix College in Conway, Ark. To speak and be kudized at the college's commencement he invited Roman Catholic Postmaster General James Aloysius Farley, good friend to the president of the college's board of trustees, Utilityman Harvey Couch (Arkansas Power and Light, Kansas City Southern Railway). Mr. Farley came, spoke and was kudized, but not before a number of Arkansas Methodists, among them Teetotaler Dr. A. C. Millar, a former Hendrix president, had kicked up a storm because Teetotaler James Farley had helped repeal Prohibition...
...Southern trees bear a strange fruit...
Black bodies swinging in the Southern breeze...
Longest and liveliest part of the story tells of Glenn's shattering experiences as a Red trade-union organizer in a Southern coal strike (resembling that of Harlan County in 1931). When two deputies are shot, mass arrests hit both the Red union and its rival. Glenn, who is nearly killed by vigilantes, urges a united-front defense. But Comrade Silverstone, of Manhattan, sneers: "There's too much of the artist in you, Sandy." Silverstone says they will take care of their own comrades, let the others, who are "politically undeveloped," take care of themselves. Their own comrades...