Word: tenn
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...clock one afternoon last week, an all-white jury filed into the trial room of the Lawrenceburg, Tenn. courthouse and faced pink, plump Circuit Judge Joe Ingram. For two tense weeks, 25 Tennessee Negroes had been on trial, 23 of them charged with the attempted murder of four white policemen in the ill-famed Mink Slide race riot at Columbia (TIME, March 11). Now, after one hour and 53 minutes of deliberation, the verdict was in: two guilty; 23 not guilty. Exclaimed white Defense Attorney Maurice Weaver jubilantly: "A victory for Americanism...
Whitson M. Overcash, Jr. '45, Spring field, Tenn., Eliot House, Architectural Sci., Jubilee Committee, chairman Eliot House dance committee, Glee Club, Class Chorister...
...A.F.L. and C.I.O. bumped heads again in runoff elections at the Oak Ridge, Tenn. atomic-energy plants. Both were left groggy; the collision settled little in their scrap to organize Southern labor...
...good enough for Tennessee's Vanderbilt University. Graduates of any other prep school had to bring along an elaborate collection of grades and records, but not the boys of "Old Sawney" Webb of Bell Buckle, Tenn. (pop. 378). Returning from Versailles, Woodrow Wilson, onetime president of Princeton, told Webb alumnus Norman Davis: "The Webbs defy all the accepted laws of pedagogy, but their boys were the best prepared that...
...agree with Abe Lincoln, whom you quote in this article, that "among freemen there can be no successful appeal from the ballot to the bullet. . . ." But desperate circumstance sometimes requires desperate remedy. All that the G.I.s of Athens, Tenn. wanted was a fair count of their votes. And, more power to them, that is what they...