Word: jails
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...print an article concerning William Lorimer [TIME, Nov. 1] that certainly demands correction and repudiation, and you print a picture which mere acquaintances recognize at once as not being his likeness. . . . You state that he was put in jail seven years after the crash of the LaSalle Street Trust & Savings Bank, because the government found his banking schemes fraudulent. Mr. Lorimer was acquitted by a jury in the Criminal Court of this county, after a lengthy trial of the charges growing out of the failure of that bank, and, the indictment in the Federal Court, as I remember...
William Lorimer was, for at least a few weeks, in jail, although later acquitted of bank frauds. And he was expelled from the U. S. Senate for bribery. To Subscriber Solberg, thanks for his clear presentation of the Lorimer side...
Last month in Aiken, S. C., a band of the new gentry lynched three Negroes, Demon and Clarence Lowman and their sister Bertha, with a refinement of tactics (TIME, Oct. 18). They hauled their prey out of jail one night, took them out of town, told them to run, shot them in the face and chest as they turned to look. In 200 parked cars the gentry stepped on their starters, satisfied...
...seems that the sheriff of Aiken, one Nollie Robinson, and the jailer had not fought the lynchers who had come for the three Negroes (as originally reported), but had, according to testimony of other prisoners, helped take the Negroes out of jail. The unearthing of this story was attributed to Walter White, Negro, of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People. The exuberant journalism of Editor Swope pushed the issue to the doorstep of Governor Thomas G. McLeod. The World reporter gave it wide publicity and helped bring about an investigation of Sheriff Robinson's alleged offense...
...billion dollars, and earned my state the title, Land of the Boobs,' said I, caustically, to Indianapolis newsgatherers. 'When I go elsewhere I railed on, 'people don't kid me any more about being from the state of authors. "Is your governor- still in jail?" they ask, and "How's the Ku Klux Klan?" Even with Senator Watson crying "You're a liar!" the Indiana Republicans cannot deny that D. C. Stephenson, Klan dragon and now a convict, was their big cheese, and that they dealt with...