Word: macke
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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CIVIL RIGHTS To the Roots Attorney General William P. Rogers, heavily occupied with civil rights legalisms during his two-year tenure, last week angrily tongue-lashed the Mississippi grand jury that ignored evidence uncovered by the FBI after the lynching of Mack Charles Parker last April (TIME, Nov. 16). The grand-jury performance, said he, "was as flagrant and calculated a miscarriage of justice as I know of." The grand jury's failure to return indictments for the Negro's murder showed the need for a new federal "criminal statute" to protect civil rights. "The nation will...
...grand jury, charged the jurors to "go into the jury room like men, do your duty, come out like men and keep your mouths shut." With 23 cases to consider, the khaki-clad farmers and paper-mill workers returned 17 indictments. Notably missing: indictment of lynch-law executioners of Mack Charles Parker, Negro rape suspect dragged from the unguarded Poplarville jail last April and shot to death...
...freshman meet, the Crimson squad also took dead last, tallying 54 points, against 30 for Yale and 36 for Princeton. Eli Bob Mack covered the three and one-tenth mile distance in 15:16 for a new record, breaking the old mark of 15:39 set by Tiger Pete Hoey, who finished second yesterday...
...holds forth with Nietzsche, Mill, and Santayana in Emerson F. The Nietzschean spirit seems to haunt the the rest of the building at this hour. For the up-and-coming Raskolnikov Dr. Wheeler in Soc. Rel. 184 (Emerson A) carefully examines where such greats as Willy Sutton and Mack the Knife slipped up. As insurance, "cops and robbers" finishes up with a study on the ins and outs of prisons...
...every sort of distortion and epithet. He defied the U.S. Supreme Court, hurled Mississippi mud at Gartin (whom he called "Little Boy Blue") and Gartin's patron, moderate (for Mississippi) Governor J. P. Coleman. Last fortnight in Poplarville, scene of the recent lynching of a Negro named Mack Parker (TIME. May 4 et seq.). Gartin was greeted by Barnett posters on every telephone pole: "Remember Hungary. Remember Little Rock. Remember the occupation of Poplarville by J. P. Coleman and the FBI . . . If Gartin is elected, the next occupation forces may be the N.A.A.C.P. and specially trained goon squads from...