Word: gatherings
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...attorney, even though retained under fee by a client, still owes his first duty to the State! He must hasten Justice and make it sure, even against the wishes or the interests of his client. He must control the exposition of facts related to him by the client and gather the elements of proof into an honored sequence, so that when the trial begins it can move speedily to a decision. There must be no emotional pleading, no such disgrace to Justice as what the American's call 'sob stuff...
Next morning a farmer, setting out early to gather fodder, found Fugate sprawled in a bed of bloody snow, still alive. At the hospital, Fugate, his armbone shattered, raised his right forefinger to swear to the identity of six of his assailants. The six, all kinsmen of murdered Lawyer Watkins, voluntarily surrendered. Only then did the lynched man die, making murderers of indiscreet lynchers who had broken Lynching Rule No. 1: "Do not leave your man until you are absolutely sure he is finished...
...Rockefeller might do, but by getting his neighbors to join him in improvements. He has not expanded his home farm to gobble up the town, but stopped at 700 acres. When the little red schoolhouse was rebuilt along Colonial lines as suggested by him, he put on overalls, helped gather fieldstone, and swung a pick, besides paying all bills. He wanted this school to be a model of city and country advantages for rural education. When they put up a plaque with the names of the builders and what each had done, he paired his name with the village patriarch...