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...claimed that 65% of the employees got $35 a week or less, and even had to buy their own pencils.) As a starter, the union massed about 150 pickets-many from other unions-outside the bank's main office. A number of them got their heads rapped by patrolmen "keeping the entrance free," and were jailed...
...make the "rowdy undergraduate" stereotype seem fictitious. The one irregular episode occurred when the U.T. was first opened and students, perhaps to intimidate the unfamiliar apparitions, heaved over-ripe vegetables at the screen. Police were quickly summoned and a few heads were dented. But since that time, all patrolmen assigned to the College have been carefully chosen and no major incidents have developed. Furthermore, by keeping in close touch with University officials, the police have managed to apprehend any trouble well in advance of II-hour...
Then came more excited bulletins: state highway patrolmen had got the Negroes away from the mob. They had paused with them in Columbia, but there was no safety there-the white folks were still on edge, remembering the ugly outbreak in Mink Slide last spring (TIME, March 11). So the Negroes were taken to safe haven in Nashville. Many of the people of the Bluegrass Bowl and the Highland Rim felt better because a lynching had been averted...
...lawyers volunteered legal help. Most of the town's veterans' organizations and the Good Government Club rallied around. There were mass meetings, hangings in effigy, furious speechmaking. A minor intramural row had turned into a major political fight. The biggest heroes in the city were handsome, hefty Patrolmen Frank Klich, Lucien Tessier, John Byrnes and John Gorman-now nicknamed the "Fearless Four...
...tragedy had one more chapter. Two days later there was a melee in the jail. State patrolmen shot two of their Negro prisoners to death. Once the spark was kindled, in towns like Columbia, there was no stopping...