Word: hills
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Southern lynchings customarily end with the death of the mob's victim. Last week's reverse lynching had a reverse ending. To a Birmingham hospital went Negro Alvin Hill, seriously wounded by two .45 calibre bullets. Into a Birmingham jail five hours later strolled Clarence Higginbotham, white proprietor of the "Bloody Bucket." He confessed to the shooting, said he had been afraid Hill and three Negro companions were going to try some of that "lynch stuff...
...wife of a dentist, had obtained the money by selling gold from the teeth of Navy Minister Matsumasa Yonai after work done in her husband's office. Enthusiastic citizens of Durham, N. C. ("The Friendly City"), gave a dinner for American Tobacco President George Washington Hill, there to inspect his plant. One of the hosts, Publisher Carl C. Council arranged to have his Durham Herald City Editor Bob Mason interview President Hill after the festivities. City Editor Mason appeared, was given no interview, carried away only an impression of a flashily-dressed man in a rich brown suit, bright...
Plodding wearily along at a snail's pace on the road that winds through Spanish hill-country were two travellers. Dust-caked and grimy, leading by the halter an aged nag, heads bowed, and pace ambling, the pair presented a picture of human dejection in the golden rays of the afternoon sun on that highway leading from the nation's capital to the borders of France. It was obvious that some blows had been dealt the men's fortunes, for every movement in their demeanor was a sign of discouragement, disappointment, defeat...
...paralysis; in Atchison, Kans. Since he started the Atchison Globe in 1877, Editor Howe framed catchy, pungent aphorisms about those world figures and affairs that did not conform to his Middle Western philosophy of industry, honesty, temperance and thrift; became the kindly, grouchy "Sage of Potato Hill." In 1911 he sold the Globe to his staff, continued to champion the cause of the common people through the unique E. W. Howe's Monthly...
REMEMBERING LAUGHTER-Wallace Stegner A CARGO OF PARROTS- R. Hernekin Baptist LOVING MEMORY-James Hill THIS MAN, JOE MURRAY...