Word: walden
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...ruddy, gray-haired county doctor, A. R. Walden, thought that a hero should come home to something better. He wrote a letter, mailed it with $100 to the Spartanburg Herald-Journal...
Thoreau was only at Walden for a short period, but is mainly associated with it. The Bowery is only one of the fox holes from which I have observed life. I have only lived there for short periods about twenty years apart and I do not consider that my present address (Maison Gerard, 311 West 33 St., New York City--ed.) is in the Bowery. A hundred years from now when the Charles T. Copeland of that period lectures at Harvard on Joe Gould and his circle he will point out that my life has always been distinguished...
Last year, to save trouble, only a few Negroes went to the Georgia polls to get the turndown they knew they would get. This time Dr. Austin T. Walden, Negro leader, announced a change of strategy. At Atlanta's primary, Negroes will be urged to go to the polls in large numbers...
...Walden, Negro Atlanta attorney and State head of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People, appeared at Precinct B. His own precinct, where he votes regularly in general elections, was in a Negro neighborhood. It was closed for the Democratic primaries. When Lawyer Walden gave his name and address, he was told, "That's in Precinct 3-B. I'm sorry, but we have no one listed for voting at that address." He argued. O. L. Walker, election official, said firmly: "This primary is for white voters only." Both sides were careful, softspoken, scrupulously polite...
Harvard climbers will be on Mt. Katahdin, Mt. Chocorua and on the Presidential Range this weekend as the Outing Club opens its fall season with a stellar program for the long weekend. Near at hand is a holiday trip to Lake Walden by bicycle...