Word: fortes
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...News board for the year includes Dana T. Bartholomew of Ansonia, Conn., Chairman, G. W. Haight, of Newport, R. I. Business Manager, J. A. Thomas, of Fort Worth, Texas, Managing Editor; R. O. Mitchell, of Minneapolis, Minn., Assignment Editor; E. Davison Jr., of Flint, Mich., Vice Chairman; and L. B. Hockaday, of Evanston, Ill., Assistant Business Manager...
Last summer (TIME, July 26) one Dexter E. Chipps went to Evangelist Norris' study in the First Baptist Church of Fort Worth, to remonstrate against the evangelist's utterances upon Chipps' close friend, Mayor H. C. Meacham of Fort Worth. Politics, the Ku Klux Klan, Roman Catholicism¶all lay behind the diatribes that Evangelist Norris considered himself called upon to utter from his church rostrum. He had been threatened with death; he believed that angry Mr. Chipps had come to kill him; he, famed for his gunmanship, shot quickly, to be first. Later he learned, with...
...Fort Worth was top excited a community for a fair trial of Evangelist Norris. So venue was changed to Austin, where the murder trial ended last week. The jury consisted of a onetime sheriff, merchants, clerks, farmers, laborers. None was known to be a Klansman or a Catholic. All were wary gentlemen, who heard Prosecutor William McLean sneer at Evangelist Norris as a "pistol-packing parson"; cry: "There has been a frame-up in this case. Norris had murder in his heart and wanted an excuse to kill Chipps, and said something to make him turn, and then pumped...
...Norris is a man of courage. He had the right to kill Chipps the minute he came into his office door, but he did not. He waited until Chipps came back, rushed at him to carry out the promise he [Chipps] had made to Mayor H. C. Meacham [of Fort Worth, who was not permitted to testify in this trial] to stop Norris or kill him. Poor Chipps was sent to his death that day by the Mayor of Fort Worth...
...deliberate; the trial judge, James R. Hamilton, went home for a rest; Defendant Norris and his bodyguard took a walk over to his hotel. A long time would elapse, all thought, before the jury could untangle the splenetic arguments of the lawyers. Two hundred miles away in Fort Worth, Evangelist Norris' followers prayed industriously...