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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Just after one midnight last week Sheriff Louis Corbitt of Henry County, Ala. and Jailer J. N. Corbitt. his father, asleep in their first-floor bedrooms below the rooms at Abbeville that serve as county jail, were awakened by a great racket outside. Before they could get up to investigate, a mob of 50 armed farmers burst in, ordered them to stay where they were. As sheriff and jailer sat abed looking sleepy-eyed into grim Henry County faces, part of the mob marched upstairs, broke into the jail. Going straight to the bullpen occupied by six cowering blackamoors, they...
This week Elihu Root would be 92. From his home in Clinton, N. Y., his birthplace, after services in the chapel at Hamilton College where his father taught mathematics, where he was graduated the year Sherman marched to the sea, he was borne to his grave...
...parties united in stormily denouncing the British Newspaper Proprietors' Association last week. During the months and years in which the story of Mrs. Simpson grew abroad, the docile N. P. A. muzzled itself under Government pressure and kept mum as long as possible, but recently its reporters and cameramen have "got completely out of hand"-in the House of Commons' opinion...
...Kurd and Laborite Emanuel Shinwell last week were typical of British extremes which met to give horrible examples of journalistic prying and peeping into British lives, high, low and intermediate. The coroner in a gruesome North London accident case last week was quoted in the House as remarking of N. P. A. cameramen: "They showed scant regard for decencies in their treatment of the dying patient!" Closing the debate, Home Secretary Sir John Simon warmly assured M.P.'s that he will remonstrate with the N. P. A., drew hearty cheers from all quarters of the House...
...lynch law of Latin American justice is the "ley de fuga" (law of flight). This is supposed to empower police to shoot fleeing prisoners, but in practice often means that a troublesome prisoner is set free, then drilled before he can scoot out of range. From León in Mexico's State of Guanajuato last week came a tale of ley de fuga perfect except in one particular...