Word: doored
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Lewisburg lynchings were executed with the drilled precision of a first-class football backfield. With dimmed headlights and without license plates, a string of automobiles quietly circled the Greenbrier County jail, came to a halt. A group of 60 masked men filed up to the jail door. The keeper was summoned, seized, forced to give up his keys. Shivering in their underclothes, Jackson & Banks were taken to the edge of town, strung up to the cross arm of a telephone pole, side by side. Someone gave an order. Stepping back from the pole, the mob raised guns to shoulders, riddled...
...loud slamming of the White House's front door shortly after March 4, 1929 was responsible for reverberating echoes about political Washington last week. The slammer was President Hoover; the slammee was a bristly-haired, thick-necked Tennessee lawyer named Col. Horace Mann.* A skillful organizer and patronage broker for the G. O. P., South, Col. Mann used to play poker with President Harding, no stickler in politics. He did useful jobs for Calvin Coolidge in 1924. An ardent Hooverizer, he turned up in Kansas City in 1928 with enough Negro delegates on his list to ensure the Beaverman...
...disappointed because the President planned a great political reform below the Potomac. The "white trash"' which constitutes Southern Republicanism must be replaced by a better element. The old barter of Federal jobs must cease and only worthy citizens appointed to office. The White House door was firmly closed on Col. Mann and his traditional ideas of Southern patronage...
...absorbing triangle, and indeed an appealing one when the frail figure of the boy stands guard at the bedroom door to keep back the father. The outcome is not so much of a foregone conclusion as usual, and the audience is kept in some suspense till the final resolution of an effective storm scene...
...management. Employes go to work as usual, trains run on schedule, salaries and wages are paid promptly. But all of this will be done in the name of Receivers Franklin and Nicodemus, not in the name of Wabash Railway Co. Instead of "President," Mr. Franklin's office door will be labeled ''Receiver." Many rubber stamps, much red ink scores of reprinted forms will be required for the new regime, but routine will not change much. Chief sufferers under the receivership are the bond holders. If they did not hear the news last week they will when they...