Word: upshaw
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...brotherhood of man. Why, there are Negroes standing outside the door of your convention and you won't let them in! This convention ought to go on record favoring the anti-lynching bill." While delegates shouted "no, no, no," Georgia's famed Dry William David ("Willie") Upshaw rose to crackle: "I am going to refute this young man. He is not an old-time Baptist." Oldtime Baptist Upshaw refuted at length...
Against Nominee Willie Upshaw's 82,000 votes in 1932, Prohibition's David Leigh Colvin last week got some...
...Jersey, Nominee Colvin was not sure to what states he might still rush in a final effort to gain votes, but he hoped to make another 100 speeches, hoped on Election Day to be on the ballot in from 26 to 32 States. In 1932 Georgia's Willie Upshaw got 81,869 votes as the Prohibition Party's nominee for President...
...Franklin Roosevelt who, in one of his inspired moments, launched the Florida Ship Canal with $5,000,000 of relief money last autumn, day after the S. S. Dixie went aground in the treacherous Florida Keys. But it was Florida's senior Senator Duncan Upshaw Fletcher, to whom the President owed much gratitude for important New Deal service in the chairmanship of the Senate Banking & Currency Committee, who got credit for selling the idea at the White House and who became its champion in the Capitol. An inland waterways enthusiast since he went to the Senate...
Died. Duncan Upshaw Fletcher, 77, longtime senior U. S. Senator from Florida; of a cerebral hemorrhage; in Washington...