Word: lynched
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Clean-up Squad. About 800 of the 1,300 Stock Exchange employees walked out. Their places were taken by brokers and exchange members. Robert A. Magowan and Norman Smith, partners in Merrill Lynch, Pierce, Fenner & Beane, helped run messages on the floor of the Stock Exchange. Vice President John Haskell headed a detail that cleaned up the exchange at night. Curb President Truslow and Chairman Edward C. Werle padded around as night watchmen. In a, day or so, the exchanges were operating almost normally, though the makeshift staffs sweated to keep up with the heavy trading...
...lineups: HARVARD B.C. Cannon, lf Yurewicz, ss Roche, rf Brosnahan, 2b Kenary, cf Fitzgerald, 1f Coulson, lb Fitzgibbons, c Mannino, ss Clasby, 3b Huntington, 2b O'Sullivan, rf Coppinger, 3b Lynch, cf Essayen, c Collins, 1b Connelly or Godin, p Stuka...
HARVARD B.C.Gannon, rf Yurewicz, ssRoche, lf Brosnahan, 2bKenary, cf Fitzgerald, lfCoulson, 1b Fitzgibbons, cMannino, ss Clasby, 3bHuntington, 2b O'Sullivan, rfCoppinger, 3b Lynch, cfEssayen, c Collins, 1bConnelly, p Stuka, pGame starts at 3 o'cloc
Officers of the plant's United Auto Workers local quickly called an emergency meeting. They denounced the committee of vigilantes for using "lynch law." After two turbulent hours, the local voted to return to work-and to allow the three suspected workmen to return too. But the back-to-work resolution carried the proviso that those who wanted to file charges against the three "for conduct unbecoming union members" could...
...Melvin Thompson took steps to counteract it. He ordered two prisoners removed from Reidsville's safe Tatnall State Prison and sent back to a rural jail in Emanuel County where they are accused of having murdered a state patrolman. This was done to prove that no Georgian would lynch them. The Governor said that the Klan meetings should be outlawed. His reason: their activities might encourage the interference of Northern "race baiters...