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...Cabinet deal transferred the Islands' Federal judgeship from the Interior Department to the Justice Department. Thereupon Mississippi's Senator Pat Harrison persuaded Attorney General Cummings to give the job to T. (for Thomas) Webber Wilson, a Mississippi Democrat who had lost his seat in the House by running, unsuccessfully, for the Senate. Negro-wise Judge Wilson soon roused the Islanders' fury against Governor Pearson to fever pitch. Looming up as a likely successor if Pearson could be dislodged, he made national news by pouncing on poor Quadroon Mclntosh. Acting as combined prosecutor, jury & judge, Judge T. Webber Wilson denounced...
Verbal Silversmith Morley thereupon tabulated 30 examples of similarities between McIntyre phrases and excerpts from his own works written several years earlier. Samples...
...Thereupon wise, 50-year-old Pastor Hay, husky, six-foot father of three, proceeded to sketch his idea of what such a book should say. Excerpts...
...rapscallion. When he might have been brooding over crops, he was strumming a mandolin, playing at country dances, barnstorming in minstrel shows. During the Civil War he commanded a Negro detachment called Company G. One day he heard a dusky private muttering, "Shoo, fly, don't bother me." Thereupon Bishop wrote another song which every soldier sang...
...office hours in a Manhattan accounting firm were going to put Bonthron out of the race. Then things began to happen. Sailing down the home stretch with his mincing gait, Jack Lovelock stepped a full eight yards out in front of Cunningham, whose stocky figure suddenly went dead beat. Thereupon, "Bonny" Bonthron began pumping his hairy legs like pistons, passed Cunningham too. But by that time Lovelock had crossed the tape. Time: 4 min., 11.2 sec., no record...