Word: southerning
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Nutt himself, at the Union Trust Co., Cleveland. To assist him in the East, Mr. Nutt picked out a Manhattanite, Jeremiah Milbank, mild-mannered Yale graduate ('09), careful investor of a multi-million patrimony; clubman, generous donor to philanthropies (especially for cripples); director of such concerns as the Southern Railway, Metropolitan Life, Chase National Bank, Corn Products; board chairman of Case, Pomeroy & Co. Like Banker Nutt and the Democracy's Raskob, Mr. Milbank is new-to politics but widely acquainted, keen to learn...
...wedge and split off a piece or two of the Solid South, the man to swing the sledge is saturnine Campbell Bascom Slemp, President Coolidge's onetime (1923-25) secretary, the Republican National Committeeman from Virginia. He it is who knows the ways, light and dark, of Southern Republicans. He it was who, last week, immediately after the Anti-Smith Democrats had said their say for Hoover at Asheville, N. C. (see p. 9), was appointed a "special assistant" by National Republican Chairman Dr. Work. He will have a Southern Republican Bureau. He will have money to spend...
That, of course, was a Ku Klux Klan demonstration as well as a Southern demonstration. Nevertheless, its sheer, insensate violence made people wonder how serious was the likelihood of many Southern Democrats splitting away from their Northern brethren over Nominee Smith this autumn...
Nominee Smith's reply to his colleague's warning was a decision to let well enough alone and not have any Southern campaign headquarters. To do otherwise, he thought, would be to admit and thus foster uncertainty about the South. Following this news, National Committeeman John S. Cohen of Georgia was reported to have laid aside his anti-Smith sentiments. And from North Carolina came word that the last really potent political boss against Smith-Senator Furnifold M. Simons-was going to "stand hitched" and perhaps even draw his weight...
...GOBBLER OF GOD-Percy MacKaye -Longmans Green ($2.00). In prose, this folktale might well have been a catalog of horrors, but Southern mountaineers' dialect done into cadenced free verse makes of it a fascinating fable, moral and all. With three wedding presents-a silver ring, a goose feather pillow, and a little black slave for luckpenny-MacKnight rides over the hills from Ca'liny to claim proud Margery, his bride. This copper-haired beauty has eight brothers who kill the little black slave for her dance orgies with the Gobbler. Luckpenny dead, MacKnight and his delectable bride...