Word: holmesing
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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According to the present outlook, the first line will be composed of Hasler and Beale, at left wing and center respectively, retaining the positions they held on the third string line of last year's Varsity squad. With them at right wing will be Dunbar Holmes '35, a newcomer to...
Half a mile south of California's San Mateo bridge on which he had been murdered last month (TIME, Nov. 27), kidnapped Brooke Hart's body was found in five feet of water by duck hunters one morning last week. Employes in his father's San Jose...
In reply, famed Rev. John Haynes Holmes (no relation to lynchee) was only one of hundreds to protest. Said Dr. Holmes: "Governor Rolph's statement . . . constitutes the crowning disgrace of the whole ghastly history of lynching in America."
We, the undersigned, students of Harvard University, emphatically condemn your stand in regard to the lynching of John Holmes and Thomas Thurmond.
Lynching is murder in its most brutal form. You, who are under oath to uphold the law, have given this worst of crimes your complete sanction. You cannot expect such men as Holmes and Thurmond to obey the law if the governor of the state of California does not.