Word: hills
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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About the Duck Hill double-lynching report and picture [TIME, April...
TIME deserves congratulations for giving the facts of the Duck Hill lynchings simply and dispassionately. Many biased Northern journals will jump at hasty conclusions anent this lawless act, falling into the common error of generalizing from too few cases...
Founded in 1771, the Boylston professorship is Harvard's fourth oldest endowed chair and one of her most distinguished posts. John Quincy Adams was first incumbent in 1806. Others have been Joseph McKean, Edward T. Channing, Francis J. Child, Adams S. Hill, Le Baron Russell Briggs, and Charles Townsend Copeland...
...well as commerce, busy Baltimore pointed to the paintings of Rembrandt Peale, to the acting of Junius Brutus Booth, to the great 180-ft. column of the Washington Monument, which gleamed in white marble over the well-scrubbed, red brick city from the heights of red clay Federal Hill...
...Baltimore by Southern-sympathizing rioters, was saved by heroic Mayor George William Brown, who brandished his umbrella at the mobsters, and 50 policemen who overawed the crowd with their drawn revolvers. Fifteen citizens and soldiers were killed that day. Next thing Baltimore knew, Federal guns were staring from Federal Hill, and the city was under the thumb of officious, punch-drunk General Benjamin ("Beast") Butler. A warm Southern sympathizer and States' rights man. Publisher Abell had his choice of keeping editorially mum or being deprived of his newspaper, thrown in jail. He kept mum. While even Union sympathizers were...