Word: townes
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...since 1930 had Texans felt the need for a real anti-lynch law. That year a mob in Sherman, Tex. hanged a Negro accused of rape, and while its fury was still up, set fire to Negro business buildings in the town. The fire got out of hand, destroyed a good part of the white folks' downtown district too, including the courthouse. It was the last big mob lynching in Texas' violent history (score: 551 lynchings). Now that President Truman was trying to impose an anti-lynch law on the South, Texans got to thinking again of passing...
...much, at last, even for steel-tough Gary (pop. 135,000), which had only murmured over seven other murders since Jan. 1 (all the killers were caught). Gary had long been used to crime. Six years ago some minor hoodlums of the Capone syndicate took over the town, infested it with prostitutes and panders, bookmaking joints and blind pigs...
...familiar questions & answers of the cornered politician. Where, he wanted to know, had all these good people been when he tried to talk up legislation for slum clearance? If they were looking for slot machines, he could fetch them out of practically every self-respecting lodge hall in town as well as in the joints. Cried Mayor Swartz: "Sometimes the truth hurts...
...down without great passion, spit on their hands and went to work. Before they were even half through they had made Clen Ryan look bad. In the dead of night Bill O'Dwyer summoned newsmen to City Hall, himself broke the wildest wiretapping story to hit the town since Justice Aurelio was overheard thanking Frankie Costello for his nomination (TIME...
Back home after two years, he was elected checkweighman and disputes agent for his union. During the General Strike of 1926 he first showed his political mettle. In Tredegar the General Strike is still known as "Bevan's Siege." "They had the whole town in a straitjacket," recalls a Tredegar shopkeeper...