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Sponsored by the Counsellors of American civilization, the photographic exhibit now on display in the Straus Hall Common Room portrays the life of the contemporary American tenant farmer and sharecropper...
...Meantime, at the other end of Tennessee, in Memphis, a colleague of Mr. Cowan was doing likewise. Lean-&-hungry-looking Rev. Howard ("Buck") Kester, secretary of the Fellowship, appeared at a meeting of the Southern Tenant Farmers Union, preached a "funeral sermon" over a "coffin" (a black cigar box) representing the United Cannery, Agricultural, Packing & Allied Workers Association (C. I. O. union), from which S.T.F.U. had broken off (TiME, March 20). Said "Buck" Kester: "I have racked my memory for something good to say about the deceased, but I have found none...
With the bravery of youth two young Socialists, Harry Leland Mitchell and Clay East from eastern Arkansas, set out in 1934 to do something for Southern sharecroppers. What they did, with the help of No. 1 Socialist Norman Thomas, was to organize the Southern Tenant Farmers Union. Having bearded many a planter and even bettered matters a little for its poverty-stricken membership, S. T. F. U. in 1937 tried to affiliate with C. I. O. as an autonomous union. Because the United Cannery, Agricultural, Packing & Allied Workers of America was already in the farm field...
Though Eliot himself earned the label of No. 1 tenant of the contemporary Ivory Tower, The Criterion also published the first poems of W. H. Auden. Stephen Spender, many another young radical. A Tory in politics,, an Anglo-Catholic in religion, Eliot held to his own beliefs in criticism. As an editor he acknowledged the talent, scholarship and imagination of writers whose social and political beliefs he sharply opposed...
Augustus Cobb, a New York lawyer, graduated from the Law School in 1872, and when he died in 1930, he left his entire estate in trust for the benefit of his brother, Edward Benedict Cobb. The brother, as life tenant of the estate, had the benefit of it until his death, which occurred last Thanksgiving Day, and the Augustus Cobb estate was then divided into two parts, one going to six New York charities, and the other to Harvard...