Word: hart
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...throughout the land held Governor James ("Sunny Jim") Rolph Jr. of California directly responsible for Negro Warner's death. Week before, Governor Rolph had congratulated the "patriotic citizens" of San Jose for lynching John Holmes and Thomas H. Thurmond who had confessed to the murderous kidnapping of Brooke Hart. California, boasted its Governor, had given the rest of the Union a "lesson" in dealing with criminals (TIME. Dec. 4). Missouri, it seemed, had been quick to learn...
Half a mile south of California's San Mateo bridge on which he had been murdered last month (TIME, Nov. 27), kidnapped Brooke Hart's body was found in five feet of water by duck hunters one morning last week. Employes in his father's San Jose department store identified the body, painfully recalled fitting the clothes which the corpse still wore. In San Jose, where gaunt-faced Thomas H. Thurmond and hulking John Holmes had been jailed after confessing to the crime, red-hot resentment took shape as a mob. Asked if he would call...
...John Lord O'Brian. Mr. O'Brian, consulting his files, said the record showed not acquiescence in but disapproval of the Loew purchase. Said Mr. Fox to the Senate Committee: "You can well imagine that I was alarmed about all this."* Next Mr. Fox talked to Claudius Hart Huston, then Chairman of the Republican National Committee. Mr. Huston said he would look into the matter, but while he was looking Mr. Fox became impatient. So he took his troubles to none other than Herbert Hoover, lunching at the White House with the President...
...Court at Corpus Christi against the six trustees of the property on behalf of a group of King heirs. That the suit was filed in Federal court was accepted as evidence of the overpowering local influence of the Klebergs as rulers of the King Ranch. The lawyer is Thomas Hart Fisher, whose father was President Taft's Secretary of the Interior, himself a member of Chicago's eminent firm of Fisher, Boyden, Bell, Boyd & Marshall. His clients are two grandchildren of old Captain King named Atwood. These Chicago heirs have long been dissatisfied with the way their first...
...best lesson that California has ever given the country." It is worth looking into when the governor of America's most self-conscious state commends rather than apologizes for the ferocious lynching which overtook the murderers of Brooke Hart. Of course, the case was unusual in that it involved no race or class prejudice; it is also to be remembered that the discovery of Hart's body corroborated the confession of the two prisoners. But in making his statement Governor Rolph showed his understanding of one significant fact. The lynching was not simply an act of vengeance...