Word: tolbert
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Died. Tolbert Hatfield, 89, justice of the peace, one of the clansmen who survived the famed Hatfield-McCoy feud; in bed, of pneumonia; in Ransom...
Only a very few highly literate and exceptionally inquisitive South Carolinians know who Joseph Warren ("Tieless Joe") Tolbert is. Those who do recognize this unkempt, unshaven oldster from Ninety Six as the Republican leader of the most overwhelmingly Democratic State in the Union, regard him with political scorn and social contempt. To most decent whites he is guilty of South Carolina's supreme sin: trafficking with Negroes for political purposes. Nevertheless, in one day last week "Tieless Joe" Tolbert and his black-&-whites turned a trick the like of which it takes the State's Democrats more than...
...Philadelphia, Negro Thomas Tolbert, io, was haled into Juvenile Court as a truant. His mother said she had told him to stay home until the teacher learned to call him Thomas Tolbert-El. his name as a member of the Moorish-American Mohammedan cult. Grand Sheik Joshua Way Bey came from Chicago to back her up, describe his organization which turns Negroes into Moors (turbans $3.50. polygamy permitted). Judge Charles L. Brown had Grand Sheik Joshua Way Bey hospitalized for examination, ordered Thomas Tolbert-El back to school...
When the babble hushed and a Roman Catholic priest had had his turn delivering the benediction (a Protestant had had first turn), the Committee on Credentials reported. It sprang a surprise by unseating one of the party's most familiar convention figures, National Committeeman Joseph ("Tieless Joe") Tolbert of Ninety-Six, S. C. When he set out to "clean up the G. 0. P., South" in 1929. President Hoover laid his political curse on the Tolbert regime in South Carolina, favoring instead the J. C. Hambright organizations. Prior to the convention, the National Committee had voted to seat Mr. Tolbert...
Caught crunching his way through the packed Congress mezzanine, grizzled Mr. Tolbert was asked by a reporter why he never wore a cravat. "I still have to find a reason for wearing a tie," he snorted, adding pridefully: "My collar is as empty as a Democrat's promises...