Word: haywood
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...April 1933, the U. S. S. Akron was lost off the New Jersey coast. Same month, this time in Decatur, Ala., bullet-headed Haywood Patterson, leader of the "Scottsboro Boys," was found guilty of rape by a jury that fixed the death penalty. Scrupulous Judge James E. Horton set aside the verdict as unwarranted by the evidence, thereby signed his own political death warrant (TIME, April...
...State's prison today reported the escape of three prisoners and the recapture of two others who got away . . . J. W. Turner got away in Haywood . . . Fred Jones got away in Moore; and James Ezzell got away in Johnston...
Yesterday morning the jury of the Scottsboro case broke a ten-hour dead-lock to return a verdict of guilty against Haywood Patterson, a negro accused of attacking, in company with eight others, two white girls bumming their way South on a freight train. This is the second time that Patterson has been handed a death sentence for the alleged crime, a new trial having been ordered by the Supreme Court last November. It is not impossible that a third trial will be held, if the defense's appeal is successful. It is, however, doubtful if the verdict will...
First defendant called was Haywood Patterson. Black, bewildered, a horseshoe in his pocket, he sprawled torpidly on a bench behind his counsel. But he was not tried. On trial were the 14th Amendment to the Constitution and Alabama's "selective jury system...
Many a family has given its name to a U. S. educational institution, but few families own one. Brenau College (founded in 1878 as the Georgia Baptist Seminary, in Gainesville) was owned by Haywood Jefferson Pearce from 1913 until 1928 when, its endowment completed, it was turned over to a board of trustees. Culver Military Academy was relinquished by the Culver family last June, made a trust foundation. Last week Hollins College in Roanoke, Va. likewise was set free...