Word: leos
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Case of Leo Frank...
...lynching of Leo Frank, as recounted in your Jan. 24 story, "A Political Suicide": You mentioned that Leo Frank was a Jew; however, you failed to state that the strongest factor in the incitement to lynch was antisemitism. I saw with my own eyes some of the handbills circulated in Atlanta at the time of the trial . . . Hate was mongered against all the Jews in town . . . My father was a Jew, living in Atlanta then. He endured the atrocity of the lynchers' parade past his very own door on that fateful night...
Until I read your article, I had never heard the name Leo Frank. What does this mean? It means that sympathy for the victim reached even to the children, but any hate or prejudice-intimated by your article-was interred "under the pines...
Warmed by the enthusiasm of three expatriate Baltimore friends-Gertrude Stein and her brothers Leo and Michael -the Cone sisters were soon heads over heels in modern art. At Gertrude Stein's urging, Miss Etta traveled to Picasso's grubby Montmartre studio, picked up a handful of drawings for 100 francs. The sisters met young Matisse, started buying his work. They were off to a glowing start toward building their fabulous collection of modern French art, today valued...
...Governor's home, had to be driven off by armed militiamen. In Marietta (where Mary Phagan was born and buried), another mob of some 40 unmasked men was organized, drove off to Milledgeville penitentiary, where Frank was imprisoned. Brandishing guns, they forced their way inside and dragged Leo Frank from his bed. Then they drove the 150 miles back to Marietta and hanged Leo Frank from a pine tree near Mary Phagan's lonely grave...