Word: weldon
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Rent Controls. In Pana, Ill., Landlord J. C. Davis, bent on shaking off his tenants, had his two sons haunt them with unearthly nocturnal shrieks and chain-clankings. In Weldon, N.C., Landlord J. W. Williams used dynamite, blew out a lot of flooring but not his eight tenants. In Hapeville, Ga., Landlord R. L. Ballard failed to budge his tenants by tearing the roof...
...James Boyd's Marching On, a novel of the South in the 1860s, Big Bill the Brakeman, who rode the historic Wilmington-Weldon (N.C.) run, bragged that he worked on "the wreckingest road in the Union." The Carolinas were beginning to wonder if they were getting to be the wreckingest states...
Close Call. In Albuquerque, N. Mex., Weldon Owens, witness at a wedding, signed on the wrong line, had to get a court order to unmarry...
...Yale another Van Vechten gift, the James Weldon Johnson Memorial Collection of material by and about Negroes, has already been in place two years. It attracts many Negro scholars, has trebled in size since it was installed. It includes the books, manuscripts and photographs which Van Vechten began accumulating while writing Nigger Heaven, the novel which put Harlem on the U.S. cultural map. It includes, too, unique Negro musical material...
...soaked up Texas history (Bonham was named for a heroic messenger of the Alamo); he also followed contemporary politics. His hero, and the hero of many another Texan at the turn of the century, was Joseph Weldon Bailey, a towering, rugged character, a mighty orator, a political reformer who rose to be Democratic leader in Congress, then graduated to the Senate. Sam Rayburn likes to recall the day when, as a ten-year-old boy, he got permission to saddle up his father's mare and ride twelve miles to town to peep breathlessly through a flap...