Word: freighting
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...have won the first round of a legal battle to compel the Flagler trustees to come to the aid of the Flagler System, but an appeal is expected, since the trustees apparently believe that further investment in the road would be folly.* Meantime Florida East Coast's Havana freight traffic is being handled economically through Miami and Port Everglades. Key West's 12,000 inhabitants are virtually stranded. Cessation of railroad service wrecked Key West's fishing industry, disrupted other business, ruined Federal plans for making the city a winter resort. It is estimated that one-half...
...April 1931, Herbert Hoover was just back from his first and last visit as President to the Virgin Islands ("a poorhouse" to him). Same month, eight young Negroes were sentenced to death at Scottsboro. Ala. for raping two white female hoboes in a Southern Ry. freight gondola (TIME, June...
...upheld in vain. Hard-faced Victoria Price who, it was charged, had slept with hoboes in a Chattanooga "jungle" the night before the alleged crime, told for the eighth time in public how Patterson and the other Negroes had chased off her white "boyfriends" and raped her in the freight car-a tale long since repudiated by Ruby Bates, the other alleged victim of the attack. When the State rested it was after 5 p. m. The courtroom was fetid. The defense had no witnesses on hand except Defendant Patterson, whom it did not want to call at that time...
...course of the trial he ruled out testimony relating to Victoria Price's poor past, objected to defense procedure which the State had let pass as satisfactory, was vague about noting defense exceptions and, when the defense tried to illustrate physical details about the freight train, complained: "It won't help anyone to see anything. It will just delay things...
This remarkable young man turned up in the East in 1922 on the brake rods of a transcontinental freight train. Son of a poverty-plagued Presbyterian minister, he odd-jobbed his way through Whitman College, Walla Walla, Wash., washing his own clothes, living at times in a tent. Burning for a big university degree, he arrived at Columbia Law School with 6? in his pocket. Before he graduated high in his Class of 1925 he had written a legal text book for a correspondence course. In his last year he taught three courses on the side...