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...distinction between "mugs" and "right." The mugs included perverts, morons, members of the choir; the others don't "run after the chaplains, nor crawl to governors, nor run with the sissies." Sickened by the perversion he saw all around him, Mansell was helped out by big, tough Bill Weldon, doing a five-year stretch for robbery, who told him that most lifers crack in the first month, drew him into a circle of accomplished thieves, big-time bank robbers, Socialists. This organization centred at the carpenter shop, was respected by the guards, smuggled in tobacco and books...
...JAMES WELDON JOHNSON...
...Methodist Episcopal Church of Zion. When Louisville, to placate its 30,000 Negroes who were blocking a $1,000,000 bond issue for its Municipal University, opened a Municipal College for Negroes in 1931, Rufus Clement became its first dean. No high-powered intellectual like Fisk's James Weldon Johnson. Dr. Clement is esteemed among his colleagues for executive ability and tact. He plays an excellent game of tennis and. with his wife Pearl as a partner, an even better game of bridge...
...appointment in Chicago, President Quezon tactfully observed that if President Roosevelt had chosen him he must be the best man for the job. But in Manila, the U. S.-owned-&-edited Bulletin declared: "If politics had not been considered, if special fitness had been the deciding factor, J. Weldon Jones [Commonwealth financial adviser and Acting High Commissioner] would have been appointed...
...Tufts 35, Goals Gray 6, Wojeiechowski 6, Radvilas 4, Lavietes 3, White 2, Struck 2, Harris 2, Spath 2, Shirk, Snell, Galuzzka, Fouls--Gray 3, Harris 2, Wojciechowskt 2, White, Lavietes, Struck, Radvilas. Referee--Hack, Roberts. Time--Two 20-minute periods. HARVARD '39 TUFTS '39 Howell, Rumi, r.f., l.f., Weldon Dobbyn, Rabenold, l.f., r.f., Sabiso, Atlas, McCarthy, Copelers Horrigan, c. c., Ellery, Burns Lupien, r.g., l.g., Pearson, Edwards MacLeod, Heckel, l.g., r.g., Hughs, Cutler...