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"Sir Robert Henry Blosset (born Peckwell; 26 June 1776 – 1 February 1823) was an English lawyer who was briefly Chief Justice of Bengal. In 1811 he adopted his mother's surname. He was the son of Revd Henry Peckwell, a Methodist preacher, and his wife, Bella Blossed (or Blosset). He was educated at Westminster School and Christ Church, Oxford, where he earned a BA in 1796 and an MA in 1799. He entered Lincoln's Inn in 1795 to study law, was called to the Bar in 1801 and made a Serjeant-at-Law in 1809. He was Deputy Recorder of Cambridge and counsel on the Norfolk circuit. In 1821 he was appointed Chief Justice of the Supreme Court of Judicature of Bengal at Fort William, Calcutta and received the customary knighthood in 1822. He died in Calcutta (now Kolkata) on 1 February 1823, at the age of 46, within a few months of taking up his judicial duties there. He was buried at St John's Church, Calcutta. He had never married and left his estate to his married sister, Selina Mary Grote. He was the author of Cases on Controverted Elections in the Second Parliament of the United Kingdom (1805–1806). References External links * Category:1776 births Category:1823 deaths Category:People educated at Westminster School, London Category:Alumni of Christ Church, Oxford Category:Members of Lincoln's Inn Category:Serjeants-at-law (England) Category:British India judges Category:Knights Bachelor Category:Lawyers awarded knighthoods "
"The National Falange (, FN) was a Chilean Christian political party that existed between 1935 and 1957. It was the basis of the Christian Democratic Party (PDC); still it is customary to use the expressions "Falange" and "Falangista" to refer to members and activities of the Christian Democrats and the same party, respectively. History In 1935 a group of younger social- Christians split from the Conservative Party to form the National Falange. Despite its name this group was largely made up of progressive and reformist Catholics, and bore little resemblance to Spanish Falangism. In its early years it imitated elements of fascist movements with some of its members wearing uniforms and undergoing paramilitary training. With its progressive economic program (creating an alternative to capitalism, "redeeming" the proletariat) it was in open conflict with the Catholic high clergy who accused it of disrespecting the Church's leadership and siding with communists. Despite its aim to be a centrist alternative to the left and the right, and relatively great public attention, it never received more than 4 percent of the votes. Later it supported the administration of Juan Antonio Ríos (1942–46) and in 1957 merged with the Social Christian Conservative Party into the Christian Democratic Party.A. Hennessy, 'Fascism and Populism in Latin America', W. Laqueur, Fascism: A Reader's Guide, Harmondsworth: Pelican, 1979, p. 288 One of its former members, Eduardo Frei Montalva, became President of Chile in 1964. Other notable members include Radomiro Tomic and Bernardo Leighton. Presidential candidates The following is a list of the presidential candidates supported by the National Falange. (Information gathered from the Archive of Chilean Elections). *1942: Juan Antonio Ríos (won) *1946: Eduardo Cruz-Coke (lost) *1952: Pedro Alfonso (lost) References Category:Christian democratic parties in South America Category:Defunct political parties in Chile Category:Falangist parties Category:Political parties established in 1935 Category:Political parties disestablished in 1957 Category:1935 establishments in Chile Category:1957 disestablishments in Chile "
"Harrison J. Pinkett (1882 – July 19, 1960) was a journalist and civil rights activist in Washington DC and then a lawyer in Omaha, Nebraska. As a journalist, he was the head of the so-called "Press Bureau" and often used the bureau's collective pen name, "P.S. Twister". In 1907, at the recommendation of friends in the NAACP, he moved to Omaha where he frequently worked in civil rights. He served as a first lieutenant in the 92nd Infantry Division in World War I and frequently defended the rights of black soldiers. Life Harrison J. Pinkett was born in Luray, Virginia in the Shenandoah Valley in 1882 to Civil War Veteran Charles Pinkett, of Indian and black ancestry, and Columbia Kemper, a white woman. He had fifteen siblings, seven of whom died in early youth. Included among these are two sisters, Daisy and Carrie, and four brothers, Archibald S, Wallace, Martin, and Charles. His father was a wagon maker and wheel wright. Archibald was also a lawyer and served as Secretary of the Washington DC branch of the NAACP. Along with Archibald, Harrison was a part of the Howard University Law School class of 1906."Bliss School Graduates". Evening Star (Washington (DC), District of Columbia). Sunday, June 3, 1906. page 16 He also received education at Columbia University."Harrison J Pinkett, 78, Dies; Long Leader for NAACP". Omaha World Herald. Wednesday, July 20, 1960. page 44 In DC, Pinkett worked as a bricklayer and printer and worked for a time as a printer in Martinsburg, West Virginia and as an apprentice journalist at the Pioneer Press."Thompson's Weekly Review". Freeman (Indianapolis, Indiana). volume: XX. issue: 30. Saturday, August 10, 1907. page: 4 His first wife was Eva Madah Banks. Eva died January 20, 1948. He later remarried and his second wife was named Venus. In 1936 he was interviewed by the Federal Writers Project funded by the Works Progress Administration. In that interview he talks about his life and especially about the lynching of Willy Brown.Interview with Fred Dixon (1936) report available here: www.loc.gov/resource/wpalh1.16040908/?st=gallery Journalist and Activist Pinkett was active in student affairs while at Howard. He took part in the Blackstone Club"City and District". Evening Star (Washington (DC), District of Columbia). Wednesday, April 6, 1904. page 16 and was active at the Bethel Literary and Historical Society (where he was secretary"Bethel Literary". Washington Bee (Washington (DC), District of Columbia). Volume: XXVI. Issue: 34. Saturday, January 19, 1907. page: 5) and the Richards Debating Club. In 1905, Pinkett acted as secretary of the first meeting of the Niagara Society in Washington, DC presided by DC Society Head, Lafayette McKeene Hershaw."Local Niagara Society Formed". Evening Star (Washington (DC), District of Columbia). Monday, October 23, 1905. page 16 Hershaw was then elected secretary with the presidency going to John F. Cook: Pinkett shifted to assistant secretary. Other officers included, Lewis Henry Douglass, Francis James Grimké, William Henry Harrison Hart, William Calvin Chase, William H Richard, John Wesley Cromwell, and William C. Martin."The Niagara Movement". Washington Bee (Washington (DC), District of Columbia). Saturday, November 25, 1905. Volume: XXV. Issue: 26. Page: 1 In January, 1907, Pickett was admitted to the DC bar"Admitted to Practice". Evening Star (Washington (DC), District of Columbia). Friday, January 25, 1907. page 12 and became a prolific writer for black papers. He served as manager and attorney of a group called the Press Bureau under the pen name "P.S. Twister". In this capacity, he was deeply critical of other black leaders, including Journalist R. W. Thompson,"No Headline". Plaindealer (Topeka, Kansas). Friday, May 22, 1908. Volume: X Issue: 21. page: 4 and of Howard University President, Wilbur P. Thirkield"Paragraphic News". Washington Bee (Washington (DC), District of Columbia). Saturday, January 25, 1908. Volume: 27. Issue: 35. Page: 1 for their support of the election of Booker T. Washington, Jesse E. Moorland, J. H. N. Warring, and John T. Baldwin to the Board of that university because of their connection with capitalistsRayford W. Logan. "Howard University: the First Hundred Years, 1867–1967". NYU Press, 1969. page 154-155 as well as previous Howard University President, John Gordon."Letter" Richmond planet., December 30, 1905, Page 4, Image 4 Writings under this pen name ceased and he was asked by black leaders to consider practicing law in Omaha, where he moved in 1908 becoming the first University trained lawyer in Nebraska. Pinkett's connection to DC continued, and W. E. B. Du Bois visited Pinket in Omaha in the summer of 1908.Negro Leader will not Vote for Mr. Taft, Omaha World-Herald (Omaha, Nebraska), Monday, June 22, 1908, Page: 1 Omaha Lawyer When he arrived in Omaha, he was listed as one of four black lawyers along with S Robbins, F L Smith, and J W Carr."Omaha News". Plaindealer (Topeka, Kansas). volume: X. issue: 43. Friday, October 23, 1908. page 4 An early national case Pinkett worked in was in support of black troops stationed in Omaha who were erroneously discharged for involvement in the 1906 Brownsville Affair which falsely accused troops stationed in Brownsville of a disturbance at Brownsville bars resulting in the death of a white bartender and the wounding of a police officer. The affair reached Omaha when an imposter who went by the name G S Ward claiming to represent Senator Joseph B. Foraker and presenting a list to the command at Fort Omaha of individuals who supposedly confessed to involvement."Law was Defied". Sun (Baltimore, Maryland). Volume: CXLIV. Issue: 58. Wednesday, January 13, 1909. page: 1 He also spoke out against the mob involved Greek Town riot of 1909."Fixing the Blame". Omaha World Herald. Tuesday, February 23, 1909. page 4 In 1911, he wrote an affidavit in support of newly elected governor Chester Hardy Aldrich's accusations of fraud (that three times as many votes were cast as the population supported) in the election in Omaha's third ward,"Comes to Omaha To Open Inquiry on Thursday". Omaha World Herald. Wednesday, February 1, 1911, page 1 a position which put him in opposition to Tom Dennison's supposed machinations and in support of John LewisPinkett was cousin to Omahan William Lewis of Dan Desdune's jazz band, it is unclear if he was related to John. "Three Omaha Colored Officers Land in US". Omaha World Herald. Saturday, February 15, 1919. page 13 and his Anti-Saloon League."Evidence not Street Gossip What is Wanted". Omaha World Herald. Friday, February 3, 1911. page 1 In a not dissimilar situation, Pinkett was a part of campaigns in 1916 to make Douglass County a dry county."Dry Want $20,000 For Campaign Fund". Omaha World Herald. Friday, January 21, 1916. page 4 Blacks were not united in support of Pinkett, however. He was heavily involved in the prosecution of black businesses in Omaha's Midway, which before World War I was the city's red light district.Schneider, Mark Robert. "'We Return Fighting': The Civil Rights Movement in the Jazz Age". UPNE, 2002. page 33-34 He spoke against saloons and bootlegging joints and called for greater enforcement of laws against drug sales, noting the availability of morphine, opium, and cocaine. Both before and after the war he worked for the newspaper, The Monitor, which gave his message a voice,McKanna Jr, Clare V. "Seeds of Destruction: Homicide, Race, and Justice in Omaha, 1880–1920." Journal of American Ethnic History, Vol. 14, No. 1, African Americans (Fall, 1994), pp. 65-90 and in 1921 he started the short-lived newspaper A New Era. World War I Pinkett was a strong patriot and in the days before the United State declared war on the German Empire and joined World War I, he wrote a letter to the Omaha World Herald in support of the action and calling blacks to service."Ready to Serve" Omaha World Herald. Thursday, March 29, 1917. page 6 Pinkett enlisted, becoming one of five Omaha officers (Pinkett was a first lieutenant).The others were: Amos Madison, William M Johnson, Dr. William Peebles, Edward Turner and John W. Bundrant. "Colored Men Return with their Shoulder Straps". Omaha World Herald. Friday, October 19, 1917. page 10, W. Allison Sweeny, "History of the African American Soldier" Pinkett received his commission at Fort Des Moines on October 15, 1917 after five months training and first reported to Camp Dodge. He served with as battalion adjutant for the first battalion of the 366th Infantry in the 92nd Infantry Division. He landed in France on June 26, 1918 and was stationed for six weeks at Bourbonne for training. He then was sent to the Boche to the Vosges sector. He saw active service for a month on the Vosges sector, he was ten days on the Argonne, and a month on the Metz sector where he was when armistice was signed. He believed his men fought gallantly, noting that of 32 distinguished services medals given to the 92nd division, his organization received 22 of them."Saw Men Cut in Half by Machine Gun Fire". Omaha World Herald. Thursday, April 3, 1919. page 1. Pinkett is called a captain in this and future World Herald references to his service. Upon the end of World War II, Pinkett remembered the hearing of the November 11, 1918 armistice while under fire in front of Metz, saying, "The colored boys under me laid down their rifles, and the Germans did the same. They rushed across the clearing that separated them and embraced with joy.""H.J. Pinkett, Attorney Here 39 Years, Recalls First Armistice in France". Omaha World Herald. Monday, November 11, 1946. page 6 Near the end of the war while serving in Mayenne, France Pinkett continued to write editorials to the World Herald, writing in support of a national cemetery in France."His Memorial to the Allied Dead". Omaha World Herald. Saturday, February 1, 1919. page 2 Pinkett returned to the US March 1, and was discharged at Camp Upton on March 8 and returned to Omaha shortly after. Committee of 5,000 controversy In early 1921, Pinkett became the focus of a controversy in Omaha. In part, the controversy arose when he sued pastor W C Williams of St. John AME Church (where Pinkett had been a member) over financial irregularities when the church built a factory for the employment of the women in the church."Pastor Says Pinkett Charge 'Spite Work'". Omaha World Herald. Thursday, January 6, 1921. page 4 At nearly the same time, Pinkett hired George Wells Parker to be editor of the newspaper "The New Era", a paper Pinkett paid to produce. When the pair disagreed over the contents of the paper, Parker created a new paper, "The Omaha Whip" which managed two editions before closing. Parker accused Pinket and two other men, Ole Jackson and Johnny Moore, of promising to give the black vote to police superintendent Dean Ringer. The accusations included that the police look the other way while Moore, who had recently been released from prison, and Jackson sold "anything they want to sell"."Pinkett-Ringer- Jackson-Moore Combine Works Overtime Again", The Mediator, Omaha Nebraska, March 31, 1921, page 1. Further, Parker accused Pinkett of association with the supporters of the Ku-Klux-Klan and called on Omahan's to stand by the campaigns of Mayor James C. Dahlman and his party."Why the Whip was Discontinued". Omaha World Herald. Thursday, March 24, 1921. page 8 Williams preached in support of Parker and against what he believed was police protection of these joints and called black candidate for police commissioner John T. McDonald, Sr to state his position. Williams also associated his opponents with a group called the "committee of 5,000" which he claimed consisted of the ministers and members of white Protestant churches in Omaha who campaigned against Jews, Catholics, and blacks in the city and supposedly had KKK ties"Says More Joints are Running than Ever". Omaha World Herald. Monday, April 4, 1921. page 1 Law and civil rights work The Omaha NAACP was founded in 1918 after Mary White Ovington spoke in Omaha and after the end of World War I was led by Pinkett and Father John Albert Williams. W. E. B. Du Bois came and spoke to the group in May 1919 and Mayor Edward P. Smith was in attendance. An important cause of the violence throughout 1919 were cases of police or media sensationalize of crimes perpetrated by blacks and the resulting anger and violence of whites. When the paper, the Omaha Bee, ran such a story, the Omaha NAACP organized a rally in protest of over 600 people. Another report in the Bee of a rape allegation against Willy Brown in September 1919 is often considered the instigation of violence by a mob of whites culmination in the lynching of Willy Brown and followed by more rioting and violence. Among others, Williams and Pinkett worked to bring peace in the city."Race Propaganda". Omaha World Herald. Thursday, November 6, 1919. page 12 Pinkett would later blame the riots on the Dennison machine as an action in support of Dahlman and against Smith for Mayor.Orville D Menard, "Lest We Forget: The Lynching of Will Brown, Omaha's 1919 Race Riot," Nebraska History 91 (2010): 152-165. In a similar indecent seven years later, Pinkett played another important role. Blacks living in North Platte faced mob violence and fled the city after a police officer was killed on July 15, 1926. Pinkett, John Andrew Singleton, and E W Killingsworth petitioned the governor to step in and worked closely with the governor in reducing tension and allowing the people to return to their homes.The accused man, who was black, was found dead that same day, either by suicide or killed by the police. "Sorenson Predicts Early 'Mob Arrests'". Omaha World Herald, July 16, 1929. page: 2 In the case of street violence, Pinkett supported increased policing both of blacks and whites. Pinkett also protested what he felt was inequal enforcement and police harassment of blacks and black owned businesses. In 1922, he served as the attorney for Robert H. Johnson, who he felt was a victim of a different kind of police abuse. Johnson was a political agitator who supported M. L. Endes for police commissioner and who was arrested and held in jail the week of the election. Pinkett claimed in court that Johnson's right of habeas corpus was illegally taken and the acts of the police were in retaliation for Johnson's politics."Charge Plot to Drive Endes Man from City". Omaha World Herald. Thursday, December 28, 1922. page 6 Pinkett also continued a somewhat antagonistic involvement in Howard University affairs, working to remove John Stanley from president of the institution."Seeks to Remove White Head of Colored School". Omaha World Herald. Friday, July 17, 1925. page 11 Indeed, the vehemence of his positions was not without cost. On October 26, 1927, Picket was attacked by a man brandishing a pistol in response to his work with Reverend John Grant of St. John's AME against gambling."Thinks Gamblers Hired Man who Attacked Him". Omaha World Herald. Wednesday, November 2, 1927. page 2 In 1928, the NAACP retained Pinkett to aid in the defense of serial killer Jake "the Chopper" Bird - defense was led by Edwin D Mitchell."Bird Lawyers Named". Omaha World Herald. Wednesday, December 5, 1928. page 1. Bird was found guilty and was in prison in Iowa until 1940. After release he killed again in Tacoma, Washington and received the death penalty in 1949. Omaha civic leader In conjunction with other black leaders, including Father John Albert Williams, John Andrew Singleton, and Thomas P. Mahammitt, Pinkett was instrumental in the creation of Omaha's Colored Commercial Club to support black business in Omaha"Spirituals to be Sung". Omaha World Herald. Sunday, May 21, 1922. page 37 and while generally a Republican,"Candidates Tour Negro District". Omaha World Herald. Thursday, October 13, 1938. page 2 supported of the Negro Democratic Club."Negro Democrat Club is Gaining Members". Omaha World Herald. Friday, September 29, 1922. page 10 He was also an integral part of the Omaha Branch of the NAACP and, along with John Williams and W. W. Peebles, and strongly spoke out against the World Herald's publishing remarks of KKK imperial wizard, Hiram Wesley Evans."Letter". Omaha World Herald. Tuesday, November 20, 1923. page 2 He continued to work with veterans and was an officer Roosevelt Post No. 30, American Legion."Killingsworth Head of Roosevelt Post". Omaha World Herald. Sunday, November 30, 1924 page 15 Later in his career he frequently lectured on African American history and continued involvement with civic organizations."YWCA Starts Study of Racial Problems". Omaha World Herald. Friday, March 5, 1926. page 1 In 1933, Pinkett ran for the post of city commissioner"H J Pinkett Files for City Commission". Omaha World Herald. Tuesday, March 14, 1933 page 5 where he lost in the primary. In 1936, ran and lost again. He continued to write letters to the editor in support of civil rights as well as work as a defense attorney and as council for the NAACP in Omaha until his death in 1960. Writings *H.J. Pinkett, An Historical Sketch of the Omaha Negro (1937). - parts of this text are available appended to WPA interview by Fred Dixon of Arthur Goodlett https://www.loc.gov/resource/wpalh1.16041210/ References Category:1882 births Category:Nebraska Republicans Category:People from Luray, Virginia Category:Howard University alumni Category:American military personnel of World War I Category:American civil rights lawyers Category:1960 deaths Category:African-American life in Omaha, Nebraska "