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...Winfield Eschelman of the Emerson senior class, glib talker, good swimmer, got together with Jack Keener, sleek cheerleader, and Sam Chase, smart debater, and some of the athletically "big men" of Emerson, to talk things over. Result: on Monday morning, instead of attending classes, some 800 Emersonians in floppy trousers, sporty sweaters, trim skirts and fetching blouses, went shouting and laughing through Gary's business section. Police disbanded them for "obstructing traffic" but many of them later stood around outside Emerson High School, hissing, gibing, catcalling at nonstriking students when school let out. Policemen saw to it that...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: RACES: Jim Crow Jr. | 10/10/1927 | See Source »

...talkative Winfield Eschelman, the strikers formulated their demands at a mass meeting which the school officials attended: 1) Let all Negroes be segregated in corners of Emerson classrooms and in the school cafeteria. 2) Let no disciplinary reprisals be made upon the strikers when they should return. 3) Let the strikers not have to "make up" school work missed during the strike. 4) Let the Emerson Negroes be transferred to other schools as soon as possible. 5) Let an all-Negro high school be built in Gary as soon as possible...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: RACES: Jim Crow Jr. | 10/10/1927 | See Source »

Smaller cities: South Hadley, Mass., Montclair, Morristown, N. J.; Amsterdam, Oswego, N. Y.; Mansfield, Ohio; Appleton, Ripon. Green Bay, Wis.; Keokuk, Iowa City, Iowa; Hutchinson, Winfield, Kan.; Chickasha, Norman, Okla.; Denton, Austin. Tex.; Fairmont, Clarksburg...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Theatre: Guild on the Road | 9/12/1927 | See Source »

...caravan consisting of a soft-seated motor bus and four automobiles will purr out of Winfield, Kan., on July 9, carrying 45 students of Southwestern College on a tour of 22 U. S. states, and two provinces of Canada. It will not be a mere rubber-necking tour, for Dr. William M. Goldsmith, who is in charge of the expedition and of Southwestern's biology department, has promised to instruct as well as point out. The students will visit Mount Vernon, Va., and Bunker Hill, Mass., as well as the Metropolitan Art Museum and the Museum of Natural History...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: On Wheels | 6/20/1927 | See Source »

...Post Office, West Winfield...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Offered to Wager | 2/14/1927 | See Source »

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