Word: hadly
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Accused of raping a pregnant white woman, Parker was abducted by 15 to 20 masked men only 48 hours before his trial in Judge Dale's court. At least ten members of the lynch mob were named by the FBI in a report to Governor James P. Coleman, who...
Dissenting, the U.S. Justice Department re-entered the case; it had pulled out last May when the FBI probe established that the federal kidnaping law had not been violated. Determined to defer no more to Mississippi's judicial machinery, the U.S. fell back on the only remaining federal weapon...
Once President Eisenhower managed to eliminate the deadline from the Berlin ultimatum, the urge to discuss Germany had evaporated amongst everyone but the British. As French Foreign Minister Maurice Couve de Murville put the German problem bluntly last week: "The best thing for the West is to maintain the status...
"I Was Frightened." Last week, after new Transport Minister Ernest Marples had hailed M1's first $59 million link as "a powerful weapon," the highway took on the appearance of a battleground. Said Marples, hurrying back to the safety of London: "I was frightened." Though the throughway is soundly...
At the rate of 2,000 an hour, motorists rolled onto the motorway on its first day, and went weaving and swerving across the unfamiliar lanes in a spine-chilling display of what police later called "bad traffic-lane discipline." Fast drivers jockeyed at speeds that reached 120 m.p.h. Slowpoke...