Word: murders
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...better to have SMITH in the WHITE HOUSE than to have NEGRO DEPUTIES IN NORTH CAROLINA PLACING HANDCUFFS ON WHITE MEN AND TAKING THEM OFF TO THE PENETENTIARY TO SERVE TIME FOR VIOLATIONS OF THE VOLSTEAD ACT AND OTHER CRIMES. (Of course the other crimes such as-burglary-arson-murder-THEFT-etc., etc. are nothing at all in the eyes of the ultras-as compared to the possession of a "pint tickler of yaller corn" "that would make a jack rabbit spit in a bulldog's face...
...preacher should secure metropolitan employment as a taxicab driver and remain so employed for a considerable period, he would undoubtedly witness exhibitions of: drunkenness, misery, wantonness, gaiety, sickness, love. Were he fortunate, he might also witness exhibitions of: murder, robbery, rape. Since preachers sometimes have cause to mention vice, it is well for them to have some knowledge of its nature and consequences. Thus it might be clever for some preacher to perform for a time as the driver of a taxi. This was what the Rev. Thomas H. Whelpley, Manhattan Presbyterian pastor...
Brig. Gen. John Henry Russell, U. S. High Commissioner to Haiti, arrived on the Ancon, pointed to press reports of a Brooklyn gang murder, had this to say of the land of King Christophe: "You can go anywhere in Haiti and be safe, and that is more than you can do in some countries...
...Sire, my murder will be your murder...
...Imperial Family, then setting out for Siberian exile, chanced to drive through the village of Pokrovskoie, where Rasputin was born, and as they clattered past the murdered Monk's house, the Tsaritsa Alexandra waved to his daughter, Mme. Soloviev, who was standing in the doorway. Boris Soloviev, was serving at this time as a secret emissary between the Tsar and his White Russian adherents. Some historians maintain that he betrayed a project for the rescue of the Imperial Family to the Bolsheviki, thus precipitating the mass murder of the Romanovs, at Ekaterinburg, on July...