Word: stephenson
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Civil War, the majority of Southern states legalized all existing Negro common-law marriages and some states left it to the courts to legalize all existing Negro common law marriages as they arose. (See G. T. Stephenson, Race Distinctions in American Law (1910). For those who have not had the opportunity to study American Negro History (and we understand that no such course is taught at Harvard), the following analysis of the origin of the Negro family may prove useful: "The uniqueness of the Negro family is a product of slavery. Most slave owners either did not care about...
...their records are not as impressive as their two Ivy rivals, they have faced tougher opponents and posses good depth. Close grouping has characterized both academies' squads this year, and each possesses a strong individual threat. Figured to finish well up with Reider and the Cornell trio are Ralph Stephenson of the Cadets and the Middies' Walt Meukow...
David C. (for Curtis) Stephenson, 62, onetime Grand Dragon of Indiana's Ku Klux Klan, who used to regard the state as his own feudal barony, won his freedom from the state parole board. He had spent nearly three decades in prison, where he languished amidst delusions of persecution and grandeur, for committing one of the most sensational sadistic murders of the '20s. In 1925, he forced a state government clerk named Madge Oberholtzer to board a train with him and, while his bodyguards stood by, brutally ravished her in a lower berth. After they...
...American's new supersonic F-100 fighter on which the Air Force is spending $100 million, has been grounded for a thorough check after a series of crashes. Three of the new 800-m.p.h. jets have crashed mysteriously, killing two pilots, including Britain's Air Commodore Geoffrey Stephenson, boss of the R.A.F.'s tactical school, who spun into the ground last week on a flight in Florida...
...first Heptagonal finisher was Ralph Stephenson of Army, who placed 20th. Jack Rosenbaum of Cornell, twice winner of the Heps, was 23rd...