Word: prevention
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...murdered a young white man, raped his white woman companion. Arrested, he was lodged in the State prison near Montgomery for safe keeping. The familiar rumblings of lynch preparations were loud and ominous. But Governor Bibb Graves declared: "There will not be a lynching in Alabama if I can prevent it." He called out 200 National Guardsmen to protect Bouyer "at any hazard" on his journey to Eufaula for trial. The courtroom resembled an armed camp. Bouyer was convicted in ten min utes, sentenced to death, pleaded for a quick execution. Like a person of impor tance, he was then...
...also conspired with Buyer Hall to violate its agreement with Buyer Lavarre, to embarrass Buyer Lavarre and prevent him from successfully operating his newspapers...
With producers scornfully silent, the loudest anti-Equity voice was Cinemactor Tully Marshall's. Fortnight ago, having accepted a non-Equity Warner Brothers contract, having flayed Equity in an inter- view, he and his employers were sued by Equity for $1,000,000 damages and an injunction to prevent his acting without Equity sanction (TIME, July 29). Last week he declared: "There are some who call me 'traitor. Well, if I'm a traitor, so was George Washington, who fought against taxation without representation. I will fight to the end against being forbidden to earn my living under a rule...
...employers. Warner Brothers, for $1,000,000 damages. Actor Marshall was a model Equity member from 1913 until suspended last June for signing his non-Equity contract. Equity charged that he had violated the agreement of June 5, asked for temporary restraining orders and, later, permanent injunctions to prevent Actor Marshall from working with Warner Brothers without Equity sanction. The damages were asked for an interview, reputedly prepared by Actor Marshall and the Warner Brothers, in which the actor denounced Equity, shook the morale of its members...
This Mary did, so successfully and with such persistence and missionary zeal that the two returned from Europe as man and wife. Soon Mary Victoria was pregnant, too, but that did not prevent Welding from deserting her "to find a place where there are high mountains and snows that never melt and nothing else except loneliness." Mary Victoria remained with her father because, "even though I have lost love, I may become a power for good in the life of my child." Milly went to New York on the trail of "something worth loving...