Word: elmon
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...hills of Kentucky's Harlan County, one day three years ago, a crusading prosecuting attorney named Elmon Middleton climbed into his coupe, stepped on the starter, blew himself to Kingdom Come. One of 18 sticks of dynamite wired to his engine had gone off. That "accident" and a whole bumper crop of anti-labor sluggings, shootings and gaggings made Harlan's rich coal veins throb with miners' blood. Last year, the La Follette Civil Liberties Committee tried applying a tourniquet; but bloody Harlan proved hemophilic...
...Baptists sit smugly aside and prate about our orthodoxy while this mission work goes unheeded, then I say orthodoxy is a grinning, chattering skeleton!" Of Dr. Kagawa, after that mild little man had shouted one of his high-pitched, unintelligible addresses into a microphone, onetime President Monroe Elmon Dodd of the Southern Baptist Convention exclaimed: "I can only say I wish we were as good Christians as this man." Finally Northern President Franklin's voice broke with emotion when from James Grover McDonald, onetime League of Nations High Commissioner for German Refugees, he accepted a challenge...
...fortnight ago the Kentucky tradition still held good in bloody Harlan County. County Attorney Elmon C. Middleton, a RePublican with apparent Laffoon affiliations, climbed into his coupe in front of his house, stepped on the starter. Instantly the machine exploded with a thunderclap went to pieces like a paper bag. Attorney Middleton died almost instantly. Experts estimated that had the other 17 sticks of dynamite under the cars hood gone off, the whole neighborhood might have been wrecked. But not one life was lost in the voting three days later...
...fortnight ago, the Kentucky tradition still held good in bloody Harlan County. County Attorney Elmon C. Middleton, a Republican with apparent Laffoon affiliations, climbed into his coupé in front of his house, stepped on the starter. Instantly the machine exploded with a thunderclap, went to pieces like a paper bag. Attorney Middleton died almost instantly. Experts estimated that, had the other 17 sticks of dynamite under the car's hood gone off, the whole neighborhood might have been wrecked. But not one life was lost in the voting three days later...
...messengers re-elected as their president Dr. Monroe Elmon Dodd, a bald, jovial, Tennessee-born cleric who stepped up from a vice-presidency last year when President Fred T. Brown fell ill. Dr. Dodd went to Shreveport, La. 22 years ago where he helped found a college named Dodd in his honor, of which he is still president. This year he traveled 50,000 miles on Southern Baptist business. A lusty parliamentarian, he whammed his gavel often last week, told the messengers: "Our church is stronger spiritually today than in years. Men are spending more of their time on their...