Word: delta
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Victorian gothic, old Memorial Hall stead on the sacred precincts of the Delta, gathering dust and age, but with the exception of examinations NROTC classes, and an occasional performance in Sanders Theater it had seen its best days. It was a tradition but an obsolete structure in the University scene...
Does the North pick unmercifully on the South? Can the South solve its racial and economic problems by itself? Both these questions got a partially affirmative answer last week from Hodding Carter, youthful publisher of the Greenville, Miss. Delta Democrat-Times. No bourbon-&-magnolia reactionary, Carter won a Pulitzer Prize this year for his forthright editorial stand against racial intolerance (TIME, May 20). In a Saturday Evening Post article, Southerner Carter admitted that the South has a chip on its shoulder, then let go some resentment toward carping Northern critics. Wrote...
Officials guessed that 4,000,000 sockeyes would struggle up the 300-odd miles from the Fraser delta to Adams Lake in the next few weeks, to spawn and die; in the spring of 1948 millions of baby salmon would head down the river for the sea, would return in 1950 to complete the cycle...
Last week they got their money's worth. A tipster called the editors, whispered "There's some Greenwood men going to be charged with the murder of a nigger," and hung up. Four days later, after checking the lead through three Delta counties, Managing Editor Charles Pou ran it down, got it confirmed by Prosecuting Attorney Pat Barrett...
...Editor James Alsop barely made their midnight deadline, gave Delta citizens an eye-opener of a banner headline: Two GREENWOOD MEN JAILED ON MURDER CHARGE. It was the first news the U.S. had of a suppressed lynching-and of the Southern prosecutors willing to jail whites for it. As new clients of the United Press, the Starmen passed their exclusive along to U.P., gave it a 24-hour beat on the lynching story of the week...