Fonzo Winbush's mother "wasn't a Snopes" (80). She tells Fonzo never to stay anywhere that isn't managed by a woman who looks "mature and Christian" and "most of all motherly" (80).
When Goodyhay lies underwater during the invasion of a Japanese-held island in the Pacific, he has a vision: "there He was standing over me, looking just like any other shavetail [a newly commissioned lieutenant] just out of a foxhole, maybe a little older, except he didn't have a hat, bucket [helmet] . . . smoking a cigarette" (308). "He" is always capitalized, and although "He" is not given a name in this passage, there's no doubt "He" is Jesus; after telling this story in his church - clearly, the foundational story of his church - Goodyhay prays "Save us, Christ" (311).
The American Legion was created in 1919 as an organization for veterans of World War I. Historically it has worked to secure veterans' rights. In The Mansion it is seen both positively and critically. Gavin is thinking of it when he talks about how "the Veterans' clubs and legions" provide "refuge" for the men who fought in the First World War only to find themselves feeling alienated, "betrayed and dispossessed" when they returned to the U.S. (201).
After Linda surrenders her attempt to improve Jefferson's black schools, she meets with "a class of small children each Sunday at one of the Negro churches" (254).
"The only sister of old Major de Spain," "a bed-ridden old woman living in Los Angeles" (463) - she and her daughter end up owning 'the mansion' after which the novel is named.
These Japanese troops are part of the attack on Americans, "Aussies, British, French from Indo-China" somewhere in "Malaya" at the start of the Second World War (305). They are never seen, but readers hear them "chirping" in the dark just beyond a line of American foxholes. Their "English" is the stereotypical dialect spoken by Asians in (white) American popular culture: "Maline" (i.e. Marine), "Tonigh youdigh" (306). Their attack begins with beheading a Negro soldier and tossing his head forward "like somebody throwing a basket ball" (306).
These are "the cops" who put out the burning cross in front of 'The Mansion,' i.e. the house where Linda Snopes Kohl lives with her father (252). The narrative says they were "outraged and seething of course, but helpless" - what they are outraged at, however, seems to be the fact that the house belongs to "THE banker" (252). (Faulkner usually identifies the police in Yoknapatawpha as sheriffs, deputies and marshals, but the term 'police' becomes more common in his later fictions; this use of the term 'cops' is even rarer.)
When an F.B.I. agent tries in 1940 to interrogate Stevens about Linda Snopes Kohl's activities, he mentions the people in the United States who are "Communist members and agents," and includes in this group "Jewish sculptors and Columbia professors" as well as "important people" (261).
Along with the principal of Jefferson's Negro school, this "senior woman teacher" tries to explain to Linda Snopes Kohl why her plan to improve education for blacks is misguided (247).
