Word: lynched
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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This incident brings into bold relief the whole race problem in the country. When representatives of the American people in Congress assembled sanction inequality, it is difficult to condemn the injustice of lynch law and trials similar to that of the Scottsbore boys. If Congress refuses rights to one minority group on account of color, it may refuse rights to other minority groups on account of creed nationality amount of wealth, or any other principle...
...last week a Mexican radio inspector appeared in Villa Acuna to enforce the closing order. Villagers threatened to lynch him. Stomping off, he returned a few days later with troops to shut down XER for good. Dr. Brinkley, ordered communications officials, would dismantle his station within 30 days or they would do it themselves at his expense...
...Lynching" presumably derives from Col. Charles Lynch (1736-96) who dispensed rough & ready justice in Virginia. "Rolphing" derives from a California Governor who, before mob violence at San Jose, declared. "I wish the sheriff would close his eyes." Hereafter in TIME, "rolphing" shall apply only to official complacency toward "lynching...
...Colonel Charles Lynch of Virginia does not deserve to have his name coupled with such lawless procedure as the taking of men's lives by crazed mobs today...
...Tournament of Roses Committee of Pasadena, Calif, omitted its usual invitation to lynch-loving Governor James ("Sunny Jim") Rolph Jr., sent one to Herbert Hoover instead...