Word: leon
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...body was what remained of 35-year-old Leon McAtee who had been locked up in Holmes County jail four days before on suspicion of stealing a saddle from a white planter named Jeff Dodd. After Dodd had pleaded that he needed McAtee to help harvest his corn crop, the sheriff released him to Dodd on payment of $15.25 jail costs. Then Jeff Dodd, his son and some neighbors led Leon McAtee down to the pasture...
With an inch-thick unstranded rope the white men in the pasture took turns at flogging their prisoner. McAtee's wife, watching from a clump of bushes, finally saw her husband doubled up in a truck heading down the road. When the body of Leon McAtee floated up in the bayou later, it was 60 miles from the scene of the flogging...
Last week, after nearby Greenwood's enterprising Morning Star had broken the story of Mississippi's latest lynching, prosecutors in Holmes County (80% Negro) moved with commendable speed. Before a jampacked courtroom, District Attorney Harold Dyer Jr. accused Jeff Dodd, his son and three others of Leon McAtee's murder. Said he: "The citizen of Holmes County holds a white man accountable if he commits a crime, the same as he holds a Negro accountable...
...Leon Blum, at the dedication of a monument to Vichy-murdered Georges Mandel in Fontainebleau, came up with a good Gallic symbol of Gallic solidarity: to his political antagonist, Rightist Paul Reynaud, France's Socialist elder statesman gave an unscheduled, non-compulsory buss...
...Sailor Paul King, prewar light operatic baritone, had almost wrecked his voice in the Carolines, where it was his job to holler at incoming ships. He was studying singing again. Ex-Sailor James Truex, son of Actor Ernest Truex, was learning to fence. Ex-G.I. Leon Janney, once-famed child cinemactor, was studying makeup...