Word: mingo
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Richard Beutler Craig, Mingo Junction, Ohio--Mingo Junction High School...
...letter to TIME appearing in the May 3 issue, Mr. Mark W. Cresap denies that his ancestor, Captain Cresap, murdered the family of Logan, the friendly Mingo leader. Logan himself believed otherwise, as appears from his reply to John Gibson, an emissary from Governor Dunmore of Virginia, in 1774. His speech is regarded as a classic example of the simple, direct, dignified style of the Indian. It may be found in Vol. VII, The World's Best Orations, p. 2569 (1901 edition), and is as follows...
...cast an eye over the faces before him.** They were faces to be reckoned with, these top sergeants of a force fundamentally dedicated to class warfare. Plenty of them had been under fire. There was chunky Bill Blizzard, a delegate from West Virginia who took part in the famed Mingo March of 1921 which brought out the U. S. Army and ended in a treason trial in the same Charles Town, W. Va. courthouse where John Brown was found guilty. There was Powers Hapgood from Illinois, nephew of oldtime liberal Editor Norman Hapgood. He had worked his way around...
Last week in Rutland, Vt., court action spotlighted the case of Edmond Leo Mingo, 37, a farmer who knows what debtors' prison means...
Accused of having wrongfully sold some cattle on which a creditor had a mortgage of $1,370, a judgment for $350 was obtained against Edmond Mingo. Unable to pay, he was found guilty of contempt of court, sent to jail on June 4, 1934. Since then Samuel Insull has been tried three times, acquitted. Since then Farmer Mingo's mother, his only close relative. has died. Since then over 500 days have come & gone. Since then Farmer Mingo has stayed in jail. Last week he was still in jail because the jail commissioners, having received a petition from...