Word: hearings
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...several times with their fists and knocked him to the ground." One of the drivers pulled out a knife. "Before you kill him," he said, "I want to put the same scars on him that he put on Brown." Said Jessie Lee Sammons: "I could hear the tearing of clothing and flesh...
Then the drivers "beat the side of his head with a shotgun." Said Marvin H. Flemming's statement: "I could hear some licks like they were pounding on him with the butt end of a gun. I heard the Negro say, 'Lord, you done killed me.' " Finally, said Charlie Covington, he heard Roosevelt Carlos Hurd Sr., a Blue Bird cab driver, cry out: "Give me the gun and let's get this over with." Just then, "a tall, slender boy with bushy hair hit the Negro in the mouth and knocked him down. The Negro started...
...could hear cars and trucks above him on the highway. They were only 50 feet away. He yelled again & again. The sun came up and dried the night damp, but it burned his right foot-his shoe had been torn off. Nobody answered him all day, and at night he was cold again...
...Communist, popped up one afternoon to return some papers to the Commission of Justice, of which he is a member. He explained that he had been "too busy lately" to work on them. One evening in downtown Rio, a group called "The Friends of Paraguay" met to hear a Negro actor read the poems of U.S. leftist Langston Hughes. They were so moved that they soon addressed each other, not as "friend," but as "comrade." In the sultry Vermelinho (The Little Red One), a sidewalk cafe, Communist literati flocked again to sip beer. They sneered complacently at "Yankee imperialists...
...places where he and other Americans were stationed, including stops in Northern Ireland and Scotland. At present he is trying to contact men who were in England to glean from them the names of places--or in special cases even people--that they would like to hear about. The Globe will run requests during June to try and get him such information, but he would like Harvard men to write...