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...conductor say: "You're leaving too soon?they're locking for a yellow nigger." He helped the N. A. A. C. P. publish the first case history of lynching, covering 3,224 cases between 1889 and 1918. And as assistant to N. A. A. C. P. Secretary James Weldon Johnson, he sat in the Senate gallery and heard the Dver Bill talked to death...
Lobbying-When James Weldon Johnson retired to teach literature at Fisk University in 1930, Walter White succeeded to his $5,000 job and a Federal anti-lynching law officially became Item No. 1 on the N. A. A. C. P. schedule. The White argument, ceaselessly drummed into Negroes and white legislators alike, was that while talk is long, the rope is short ?that in the 13 years between the Dyer filibuster and the filibuster that wrecked the Wagner-Costigan bill, mobs had lynched with practical impunity more than 290 U. S. Negroes...
Aboard the Panay, Messrs. Mayell and Alley joined 14 other civilians fleeing upriver, among them six journalists: Weldon James, United Press Nanking chief; G. M. McDonald of the London Times; Norman Soong of the New York Times; Luigi Barzina and Sandro Sandri, Italian correspondents; James Marshall, Collier's staff writer. Within 24 hours these eight newsmen had ringside seats at what may still become this century's Maine affair, when Japanese airplanes and machine guns from launches bombed, strafed and sank the Panay 25 miles upriver from Nanking...
...Spyglass Hill Farm, Warren 3.50 The Tavern, Peterborough 4.50 Thayer's Hotel, Littleton 2.00 Waterville Inn, Waterville V'II'y 4.50 VERMONT Bradford Inn, Bradford $3.50 Crestwood Hotel, Rutland 1.50 Middlebury Inn, Middlebury 4.50 White Hart Inn, Salisbury 6.00 Windsor Hotel, Windsor 1.50 MASSACHUSETTS The Northfield, East Northfield $4.00 Weldon Hotel, Greenfield 2.00 Williams Inn, Williamstown 6.00 NEW YORK Cooper Inn, Cooperstown...
...Spyglass Hill Farm, Warren 3.50 The Tavern, Peterborough 4.50 Thayer's Hotel, Littleton 2.00 Waterville Inn, Waterville V'll'y 4.50 VERMONT Bradford Inn, Bradford $3.50 Crestwood Hotel, Rutland 1.50 Middlebury Inn, Middlebury 4.50 White Hart Inn, Salisbury 6.00 Windsor Hotel, Windsor 1.50 MASSACHUSETTS The Northfield, East Northfield $4.00 Weldon Hotel, Greenfield 2.00 Williams Inn, Williamstown 6.00 NEW YORK Cooper Inn, Cooperstown...