Word: swore
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Carolina. This enlightened state was apprised last week of methods obtaining in its Stanly County prison camps. In an Albemarle courtroom scarred Negroes stripped to give evidence that one Nevin C. Cranford had encouraged their labors in his convict chain gang with a loaded, wire-lashed wagon whip. They swore Cranford's spirited whipping, kicking, clubbing and stone-pelting had caused the death of five black convicts, not merely the two for whose decease he had been indicted...
Grim with her phantom cargo of 24 decayed sailors' bodies, unredeemed since last September, the S-51 freighted them to decent Christian burial in respectable cemeteries. Fortnight ago the Navy failed in a big attempt to raise the sunken casket because of heavy seas arising (TIME, July 5), swore it would succeed next time...
...both Super-Tuchuns swore brotherly fealty, at Peking, last week and prepared to direct in concert the carrying through of their recently successful campaign against the armies of Super-Tuchun Feng Yu-hsiang (TIME, April 5 et seq.), who dominated Peking until its capture by subordinate generals of Chang and Wu (TIME...
...determination. The lobbies were as full of gentlemen from Ohio, Indiana, Michigan and Minnesota declaring that the bill must await a Supreme Court decision on Great Lakes levels, as they were of gentlemen from Illinois and other states with fingers in the pie, led by Representative Martin Madden, who swore they would hold the House until the Senate acted...
...gentleman thus tacitly found guilty was Colonel Alexander S. Williams, U.S.M.C., against whom Brigadier General Smedley D. Butler, until recently Chief of the Philadelphia police force, lodged charges of drunkenness. General Butler, who had been a guest at Colonel Williams' home, swore that later that evening he had been drunk in public at a hotel to which the party had gone. The defense produced witnesses who said the Colonel was not drunk, and offered medical evidence to show that he might have staggered because of illness. The Colonel did not testify in his own behalf...