Word: jose
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...26th and 27th lynchings of 1933,* in San Jose, Calif., and St. Joseph, Mo., started a furor of indignation in which President Roosevelt publicly shared fortnight ago. Last week near Columbia, Tenn. the 28th was so peaceful that even the Sheriff did not know it had occurred. Cord Cheek, 20, accused of raping an 11-year-old white girl, had been exonerated by a Grand Jury, had gone to visit relatives in Nashville. Twenty minutes after he arrived a mob seized him, carried him to Columbia, strung him up on a cedar limb after riddling his body with bullets. Before...
...Bankers." Major work of the Conference week was to organize ten committees, 24 subcommittees and to deal in the Steering Committee with a sensational proposal by pugnacious Mexican Foreign Minister Dr. Jose Manuel Puig Casauranc. He wanted the Conference to declare a six to ten-year all-American moratorium on international public and private debts. As high words began to fly, correspondents pressed their ears to the broad panels of the Steering Committee's door. Scandalized, the Conference secretariat sent Uruguayan Republican guards in blue uniforms with scarlet breastplates, spiked steel helmets and imposing white-holstered revolvers to chase...
...Citizen Hoover's opinions of lynch law were not shared by the San Jose grand jury which adjourned without asking for the identity of their "patriotic" fellow townsmen...
...fists at each other. Once during last week's race Letourner took a punch at Debaets for cutting in front of him. Debaets pulled the Frenchman off his wheel and both men went sprawling. Letourner was fined $25. Debaets' partner, Norman Hill, a handsome youngster from San Jose, Calif., is all-around bicycle champion...
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 and Sentinel, Los Angeles Herald & Express, Medford (Ore.) Mail-Tribune, Prescott (Ariz.) Journal-Miner, Centralia (Wash.) Chronicle, Oklahoma City News, Knoxville (Tenn.) Journal, Gastonia (N. C.) Gazette, Anderson (S. C.) Independent, Johnson City (Tenn.) Staff News, Kingston (N. C.) Free Press, New York City Daily News, Mirror, American and Journal...