Word: tillman
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...grist mill and padlocking the general store. As Clemson folks, they looked askance at other pilgrims making the journey to the state capital at Columbia; there was no telling who might be a Carolina sympathizer. There had been friction between the two factions since the day Pitchfork Ben Tillman, the state's rip-snorting governor of the 1890s, branded the university as a center of snobbery and helped found Clemson, a "heman" agricultural college with a strong emphasis on military training...
...Sergeant Richard F. French, cryptographic technician 805, stationed in Paris. For ten weeks, French got up early Sunday mornings and stood in line for a ticket to the 5:30 p.m. concerts of the Paris Conservatory Orchestra, then conducted by Charles Munch, Finally, he wrote a letter to A. Tillman Merritt, professor of Music and now chairman of the Music Department asking, "have you ever heard of a conductor named Charles Munch? He seems to me to be the logical choice to succeed Koussevitzky in Boston...
Grandpa Thurmond's son John saw the South meet violence with violence. John studied law and hitched his star to "Pitchfork Ben" Tillman,* South Carolina's demagogic Governor and Senator. Ben Tillman had a short answer for the Negro problem. He told the U.S. Senate: "We shot them. We are not ashamed of it ... We will not submit to Negro domination under any conditions that you may prescribe...
John Thurmond became Tillman's attorney and boss of Edgefield County. One day, when a drummer for a drug company used "hot language" about John being a Tillmanite and threatened John with a knife, John shot him dead. The jury's verdict: not guilty of murder...
Randall Thompson '20 will come to Harvard as professor of Music next fall, A. Tillman Merritt, Chairman of the Music Department, announced last night. Thompson, a noted American composer, was formerly professor of Music at Princeton...