Word: scottsboro
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...assistant counsel to Clarence Darrow, he defended John Thomas Scopes in Tennessee, and he helped Samuel Leibowitz defend the Scottsboro Boys in Alabama. When "Prince" Mike Romanoff got into passport difficulties and when William Randolph Hearst had his private telegrams subpoenaed by a congressional committee, Hays came to their...
...courtesy than by craft, Gulf Stream North makes what its characters do seem a good deal more real than what they are, makes the special idiom they talk most real of all. Author Conrad regards Gulf Stream North as the completion of an "idiom trilogy" that began with Scottsboro Boy and continued with Rock Bottom. When the men of the Moona Waa Togue "crap up the captain" (praise him), sing their work chanteys ("Who emptied out the bottles from hea-a-ven-n-n, and let the rain fall down-w-w-n-n?"), or joke about the odor...
Died. Haywood Patterson, 39, one of the nine famed "Scottsboro Boys," who were convicted, after one of the most sensational trials of the century, of raping two white women in a freight car; of cancer; in Southern Michigan Prison, where he was serving a 6-to-15-year term for manslaughter. Sentenced (in 1937) to 75 years in jail for his part in the Scottsboro case, Patterson escaped from an Alabama prison, fought off extradition attempts, but was sent to jail again in 1950 for stabbing a man in a barroom brawl...
...fighting," he said, "for the life of a Negro in Georgia, nine of whom were lynched. Georgia state tried to lynch the Scottsboro boys...
...state of Georgia has never tried to lynch any Negro," wrathfully broke in Congressman Henderson Lanham of Rome, Ga., who was presiding. (He was certainly right about the Scottsboro boys, whom no one had tried to lynch-and besides, the Scottsboro case took place in Alabama, not Georgia...