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Word: osburn (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Music in April 1917 he was almost mobbed by rioters who sang: ''Hang Dave Jordan on a Sour Apple Tree!" After the U. S. entered the War, however, he made no more speeches. And ten years after the Baltimore incident he received a letter from one Carter G. Osburn, who said he had led the Baltimore mob: "No apology is possible for such an act. ... I was at the time 20 years old. . . . In these ten years I saw something of the actuality of war. . . . You were motivated by the principles of civilization, while I was motivated by ... barbarism...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: On the Farm | 6/8/1931 | See Source »

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