Word: millhands
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Skunk Meat." Had it not been for Planter Greene's timely intervention, Millhand Jones might have been the first person to be lynched in the U. S. in 1938. There were eight lynchings in 1937, 13 in 1936. There have been some 5,000 in the U. S. since complete records began in 1882. There have been lynchings in every State in the Union save four?Massachusetts, Rhode Island, New Hampshire, and Vermont. But if the practice has been general, the opposition to laws intended to suppress it has centred in the South. For two generations Southern Representatives and Senators...
...than Representative Johnston began charging the head of South Carolina's State Highway Commission, potent Ben Mack Sawyer, with political skulduggery. Next year he ran for Governor with the slogan "Out with Tsar Ben Sawyer," was barely beaten. Olin Johnston, a quiet-spoken, dignified one-time textile millhand who earned his way at college as a pants-presser by day, a proofreader by night, bided his time, improved his connections and platform manners, ran again for Governor last year. This time, having promised voters a reformed Highway Commission and the immensely popular $3 automobile licenses which Governor Talmadge...