Word: staying
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Last week in Los Angeles, a furiously embarrassed deputy county clerk delivered to the clerk of California's Supreme Court appeal papers in the case of Rush Griffin, 19-year-old Negro convicted of murdering a medical student. Delivery of an appeal ordinarily brings an automatic stay of execution. Last week's delivery was futile because, while his appeal was lying overlooked in the abashed clerk's files, Rush Griffin had been hanged...
...wife take breakfast together. Before Daughter Ruth and Son Charles Jr. were married, they, too, turned up for breakfast. The Walgreens are given to talking much over their eggs. But since Mrs. Walgreen's niece Lucille Norton graduated from a Seattle high school and went East to stay with the Walgreens while she attended the University of Chicago, the conversation has been less & less to the Walgreens' taste...
Down to Tuskegee last fortnight went the Institute's trustees, led by their white chairman, William Jay Schieffelin of New York City. They hoped to persuade Dr. Moton to stay on but, if he refused, their minds were made up. He did refuse. Last week Tuskegee learned that Frederick Douglass Patterson, 34, would be its third president...
...those who would like to see rich Tuskegee turn academic like Howard, Lincoln and Fisk, the election of Frederick Douglass Patterson gave no encouragement. More of a scholar than President Moton, Dr. Patterson is primarily an agriculturist and a veterinarian. Most Negroes concluded last week that Tuskegee will stay well within the Washington tradition...
While Harlow will stay over for a few days, Mike Palm and Rae-Crowther have already left for their respective homes, not to reappear until fall...