Word: vardaman
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Deep South's voters or the type of man who there goes out for public life, the Senate has in late years suffered such people, as Alabama's Heflin, South Carolina's Blease, Georgia's Watson, Louisiana's Long, Mississippi's Vardaman. Mississippi, where Jefferson Davis lived, where the illiteracy rate is the fourth highest in the U. S., where poverty is said to have driven 'all the good niggers' over into Alabama, last week fairly outdid itself in the matter of picking a U. S. Senator...
...Deep South's voters or the type of man who there goes out for public life, the Senate has in late years suffered such people as Alabama's Heflin, South Carolina's Blease, Georgia's Watson, Louisiana's Long, Mississippi's Vardaman. Mississippi, where Jefferson Davis lived, where the illiteracy rate is fourth highest in the U. S., where poverty is said to have driven "all the good niggers'' over into Alabama, last week fairly outdid itself in the matter of picking a U.S. Senator. In the Democratic run-off primary...
...University he earned his tuition as a mess hall waiter while pitching on the college baseball team. Later he taught school, studied law, served as a local district attorney and, at 29, was elected to the House. In 1918 he performed a political miracle by defeating notorious James Kimble Vardaman for the Senate and taking over the seat once occupied by Jefferson Davis. His first ten years in a Republican Senate were ones of irresponsible fun at the expense of the G. O. P. He teased and tormented Henry Cabot Lodge. He smeared President Harding with mock sympathy. He tweaked...
...made Elsa some money to help her get away. That falls through when the pianist's romance with Mr. Conway comes out. Then there is a financially disastrous little concert which Elsa arranges herself. In jealous pique, Mrs. Conway has her removed from the faculty. Then neurotic Professor Vardaman (Luther Adler), who has tried Professor Stockton's psychological trick with the pistol, hysterically kills himself when he finds Elsa in Harry Conway's arms...
Nearby at Vardaman, Miss, are two farmer brothers similarly afflicted. Each works alternate half days. While one plows the other soaks himself in a creek. Every once in a while the worker saunters to the creek for a cool dowsing. The brothers have a sister who clunks herself in the cistern back of their house...