Word: walden
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...WALDEN...
...Harlem. In the entire South there are but 200. Southern Negroes are either too poor to pay a lawyer or else are likely to feel a white lawyer can do better for them in the courts. "The future is often cloudy and even ominous," complained chocolate-skinned Austin Thomas Walden of Atlanta to the convention. "The Negro, not yet wholly freed from the tentacles of the subservient and defeatist hereditary psychology created by 250 years of chattel slavery and surrounded by a dominant race which magnified and deified everything white, while minimizing, depreciating, if not anathematizing, everything black, which hypothesis...
...awakening one morning with a bellyache might throw his country into a war which might never have happened if he had taken a cathartic the night before." As a lad, Webb Miller was inordinately impressed with the works of Henry David Thoreau, found in that gentle naturalist's Walden a blueprint for human peace & happiness. As a man, though he still carries a tattered copy of Walden wherever he goes, Webb Miller rounds off his memoirs by sombrely remarking that "the philosophy of Thoreau ... is impractical as a rule of life. . . . Often I wish I could find the peace...
...return at 3 p. m. Sharp at 3, the oilmen and Diplomat Murray were closeted with stiff, didactic Dr. Stanley Hornbeck, Chief of the Division of Far Eastern Affairs. Dr. Hornbeck soon went downstairs to tell Secretary Hull that Standard Oil had arrived, the actual introduction of Messrs. Walden & Dundas being made by Near East Chief Murray...
Humbled by the State Department's ire, Oilman Walden also had something...