Word: wading
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Braden, a copy editor on the Louisville Courier-Journal from 1950 until five minutes after his conviction, brought the house for Andrew Wade IV, a Negro. He then transferred title to Wade, and a series of threats and cross-burnings ensued. Two months after Wade and his family moved into the home, it was dynamited. An indictment was obtained against a friend of Wade's charging that he blew the house up. This indictment has not been tried, but Braden was tried and convicted of sedition, on charges asserting that he brought the situation about to exploit the segregation issue...
...Braden became a controversial figure when he bought a house in a white residential district and then resold it to a Negro war veteran, Andrew Wade. The house was later dynamited by terrorists, and Braden was convicted in court of destroying the house to further his political interests. He was sentenced to 15 years in jail, but is appealing this sentence...
Braden, a Kentucky newsman, presently out of prison on bail, will look at the segregation problem through a specific incident. It 1954, Braden bought a house in a white residential section, which he promptly resold to a Negro war veteran, Andrew Wade. The Wades were terrorized in subsequent months by the Ku Klux Klan. The violence culminated in June, 1954, when their house was destroyed by a dynamite explosion...
Throughout its history, the Advocate has always considered its articles avant-garde. An example of this spirit is H.M. Wade's piece in 1934, "The Phoenix in the Babbit Warren," which ridiculed the "Balderdash and as the Saturday Review by superanhogwash poured out in such papers nuated professors whose knowledge of literature stops with Hardy." In the same issue, Charles R. Cherington said, "The poetry of Ezra Pound will LIVE...
...Kentucky. When Kentucky Insurance Commissioner S. H. Goebel indicated two years ago that he would investigate General American's operations in his state, General American Director Connie C. Schuchard went to Kentucky and, charged the suit, "hired John A. Keck, a district judge of the state . . . and Wade Hall, an insurance man, to exert their political influence in order to prevent Commissioner Goebel from making said examination . . . For their fraudulent acts . . . Keck was to be paid $100 per month by General American and Keck and Hall were both given a ... territory in Kentucky . . . from which they were to obtain...