Word: holmesing
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Many & many a citizen 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...
Warming to a side-fight, "Sunny Jim" Rolph pointedly cracked back at the onetime President of the U. S.: "If troops had been called out [to defend Lynchees Holmes & Thurmond], hundreds of innocent citizens might have been mowed down. There was no shooting such as that which occurred near the...
When lynched at San Jose, Kidnapper Holmes was naked. Kidnapper Thurmond had lost his trousers. Although the Press was unanimously outraged over the incident, few papers chose to print the photographs of the victims as a Horrible Example. Among those that did were the Oakland Post-Enquirer, Santa Cruz News...
The artists for the program will be Augustin O. Allen 3G, 'cello, Malcolm Holmes, violin, and Frank W. Ramseyer, piano. Mr. Holmes conducts the Pierian Sodality, while Mr. Ramseyer is an instructor in the music department.
A string trio consisting of Malcolm Holmes, violinist, Augustin Allen, 'cellist; and Frank Ramseyer, pianist will play a group of selections Sunday evening, December 10, at Lowell House.