Word: tampa
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Your TIMEly report of the disconcerting outcome of the notorious Tampa flogging trial (TIME, Oct. 25), will give progressive Tampans, who believe in civil liberties and who wish to believe in the integrity of Florida justice, cause for mingled shame and gratitude. Such searching scrutiny of the facts must eventuate in some progress...
...trying to sell a Nash for $300. Evans asked if he could try driving it. En route, he stopped at a garage, sold the car for $500, set himself up selling cars on his $200 profit. In 1927 he sold over 2,000 cars in Tampa. By 1929 he was selling 5,000 a year. Intrigued by Austin in 1932, he soon placed Austin third of all cars in Florida sales. Expanding nationally and into other lines, he soon had branches and warehouses all over...
...Tampa, cigarmaking gateway to Florida's west coast, has a reputation for lawlessness and corruption entirely out of proportion to its population (100,000). There one chilly November night nearly two years ago a police squad burst into a private home without benefit of warrants, seized the leaders of a tiny group of reformers, whisked them off to police headquarters where they were booked for "Communism." They were released with alacrity. Three of them were then escorted to waiting automobiles, driven into the country, flogged, tarred, feathered and left in a swamp. One of them, Joseph A. Shoemaker, partially...
Political Tampa had little expectation that the murderers would ever be punished. Backed by a potent roster of labor and liberal groups, Socialist Norman Thomas nevertheless set up a "Committee for the Defense of Civil Rights in Tampa." Eleven men, including the police chief, were indicted. Presently the desk sergeant on duty the night of the floggings fell, jumped or was pushed to his death from the window of a Tampa hospital. A onetime justice of the peace also at police headquarters that night died suddenly and mysteriously. A Tampa Ku Klux Klansman implicated in the case was declared...
...first trial, held under a change of venue in the little town of Bartow about 48 miles east of Tampa, was a broad education to Northern reporters, particularly representatives of the radical Press. Wires were tapped, rooms searched, frame-up attempted. At least one had the novel experience of being shadowed in his leisure moments by the defendants, who were free on bail. Presiding Judge was Robert T. Dewell, a corpulent Yaleman (Class of 1911), who was overwhelmed with appeals for impartiality from fellow Yalemen in the North. Five defendants were convicted and sentenced for kidnapping...