Word: conviction
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Reported a $177,000,000 appropriation for the Department of Agriculture after upping it $2,000,000 over the House figure and striking out an amendment denying Federal road construction aid to States using convict labor...
TIME'S comment on the editorial record of Francis Stuart Harmon: "Like few other Southern editors he has consistently stood forth against lynching, convict-floggings, local misgovernment" (TIME...
...subject of lynching, however, the Southern press is a unit. Convict-flogging having been abolished in most Southern States, including Florida, there is little occasion for "standing forth" against that...
...practical prisoners broke into the canteen and guzzled the warders' whiskey and beer. Somebody knocked the spectacles off the 64-year-old Chaplain's nose. Another convict handed them back. "You'll need these, sir," said he, "you'd best be getting home...
...rich; much of his Y. M. C. A. work he did without remuneration. A heavy debt contracted in his family led him to give up a law practice, take over (with his brother) the Hattiesburg (Miss.) American. Like few other Southern editors he has consistently stood forth against lynchings, convict-floggings, local misgovernment...