Word: vermonter
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...There were eight lynchings in 1937, 13 in 1936. There have been some 5,000 in the U. S. since complete records began in 1882. There have been lynchings in every State in the Union save four?Massachusetts, Rhode Island, New Hampshire, and Vermont. But if the practice has been general, the opposition to laws intended to suppress it has centred in the South. For two generations Southern Representatives and Senators have greeted every lynching bill that came up for debate with a reaction as sharp and unfailing as would be produced by a polecat. Snorted Georgia's Richard Russell...
...Nothing Sacred" stars Carole Lombard in Ben Hecht's story of the girl who faked radium poisoning so that a New York tabloid would rescue her from Vermont and show her how America lives. If the picture is not as hilarious as advance ballyhoo led everyone to believe, it is because Frederic March takes his part as the obituary editor (and Mr. Hecht's means of de-bunking New York) altogether too seriously...
...order to satisfy those skiiers who have no means of transportation to the mountains, the Boston and Maine Railroad is running fifteen snowtrains to New Hampshire and Vermont, leaving around noon Saturday and returning late Sunday...
With the help of Harvard anthropologists, Vermont authorities have identified the victims and advanced one step nearer the solution of the baffling murder mystery which started with the discovery near Middlebury, Vermont, in 1935 of three skeletons with bullet holes in their heads as the only clue to their death...
Almo B. Franzoni, chief state investigator, announced Monday that records of a mother and two children who disappeared from Milton, Vermont, in 1923 had been found whose ages, heights, and general characteristics almost exactly corresponded with the estimates of anthropologists who examined the skeletons here under the direction of Dr. Woodbury two years...