Word: bullpens
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Dates: during 1930-1930
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Back into the Senate bullpen President Hoover last week tossed the World Court.∙ Senators were astonished. The President asked for its consideration at this session "as soon as possible after the emergency relief and appropriation legislation has been disposed of." Then he invited in for luncheon Elder Statesman Elihu Root, who negotiated the formula for U. S. adherence to the Court, and Secretary of State Henry Lewis Stimson, Mr. Root's legal disciple and political protege...
...thought he had fainted from what he had learned inside. A cry went up. About 75 Fairmounters and Marionites, apparently equipped for the purpose, started a two-sided, business-like assault on the gaol. They battered down door after door, arrived at the bullpen where many Negroes huddled, praying. They stripped Thomas Shipp, dragged him out to the jail yard, strung him to a windowbar until he was dead, lynchee No. 10 of the year. They bashed Abe Smith unconscious with a sledgehammer, let women trample & scratch him, carried him a block away and hung him to a maple...