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Dates: during 1940-1949
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John Thurmond became Tillman's attorney and boss of Edgefield County. One day, when a drummer for a drug company used "hot language" about John being a Tillmanite and threatened John with a knife, John shot him dead. The jury's verdict: not guilty of murder...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THIRD PARTIES: Southern Revolt | 10/11/1948 | See Source »

Rope. Alfred Hitchcock's blood-freezer about two bright young men who murder for the fun of it, with John Dall, Farley Granger and James Stewart (TIME, Sept...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Current & Choice, Oct. 11, 1948 | 10/11/1948 | See Source »

...England history. They built one of the great fortunes of post-Revolutionary days, went cruising to the Mediterranean in a fabulous pleasure boat named Cleopatra's Barge, and fervently supported Thomas Jefferson. One Crowninshield hanged himself on the eve of his trial in a sensational murder case. Another left an account of his travels (Journal of Captain John Crowninshield at Calcutta, 1797-1798, When Master of the Ship Belisarius*) that is far better than most fiction...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Fiction & Family History | 10/11/1948 | See Source »

...religion must criss-cross over morality, State and Church both abhor and forbid murder, bigamy, and swindling; this is a natural, not a sinister, connection...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Defends Church | 10/9/1948 | See Source »

Through the aid of the Newsmens' Commission to Investigate the Murder of George Polk, William Polk has already raised $1,500 in cash and $6,000 in pledges of the $10,000 necessary to send himself and two others to Greece for a six-week investigation of the killing...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Polk Searches for Brother's Slayers | 10/8/1948 | See Source »

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