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...days of the arrest, three juries returned a verdict of guilty against eight of the Negroes. They were sentenced to death in the electric chair on July 10. A mistrial was ordered for the youngest. Throughout the trials, 1,000 National Guardsmen were held in readiness to suppress race disorders...
...editors had hoped it would, the U.S. Supreme Court this week declared unconstitutional Minnesota's "gag law" (TIME, Dec. 30, 1929) which empowered any district judge to suppress by permanent injunction any publication that he deemed "malicious, scandalous or defamatory." The case at hand had been in the courts since 1927, when the Minneapolis judge first enforced the law against the Saturday Press which had been attacking public officials for alleged vice protection. Publishers J. M. Near and Howard A. Guilford, lacking funds, were aided first by the American Civil Liberties Union, then by the Chicago Tribune and American...
Conscript Labor. So politically powerful is the A. F. of L. that it compelled Congress to exclude specifically from the W. P. C.'s considerations the question of conscripting labor. Nevertheless this question continued to bob up at the hearings despite the efforts of Chairman Hurley to suppress it by citing the constitutional prohibition against involuntary servitude. What some witnesses could not see was the difference between "military slavery" in the trenches and "industrial slavery" at home. Nevertheless the weight of authoritative testimony was against drafting labor. General MacArthur, speaking for the War Department, opined: "The enforced employment...
...sledges drawn by bullocks. Honeymoon couples continued to play tennis. Last week the British cruisers London and Curlew slipped into Funchal harbor. Royal marines went ashore to throw a cordon round the three largest tourist hotels. British tourists having been thus protected, the Portuguese Government was left free to suppress the Madeira revolution as best it could...
Strategy of the Madeira revolt as planned by exiles and opponents of the five-year Portuguese dictatorship of General Antonio Oscar de Fragosa Carmona, was that Madeira should rebel first. When troops and ships were withdrawn from Lisbon to suppress this island uprising, Lisbon too would rise up in revolt. But the Lisbon revolt fizzled last week. A sabre charge and the rattle of machine guns quieted the revolutionists...