Word: victimized
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Southern lynchings customarily end with the death of the mob's victim. Last week's reverse lynching had a reverse ending. To a Birmingham hospital went Negro Alvin Hill, seriously wounded by two .45 calibre bullets. Into a Birmingham jail five hours later strolled Clarence Higginbotham, white proprietor of the "Bloody Bucket." He confessed to the shooting, said he had been afraid Hill and three Negro companions were going to try some of that "lynch stuff...
...James A. Reed welcomed the lawyers to Kansas City, saying, "In this strange period in our history, the body politic is chained to the political operating table and the dreamers of dreams and the seers of visions are permitted at will to cut and probe and slash the helpless victim." Two days later Nebraska's anti-New Deal Senator Edward R. Burke appealed to the legal profession's self-pity: "There was a time when the banker was the favorite 'whipping boy.' The welts of the lash upon the . . . banker may now be permitted to heal...
Father Mullen and Cameraman Coolidge tore off in that direction. Twelve miles from the unlucky take-off the thoroughly frightened pair caught up with the even more frightened victim, still struggling with his parachute harness as he bounded rapidly along...
After lying in a fitful stupor for five years, seven months, twelve days,* Chicago's long publicized victim of sleeping sickness, Patricia Maguire (TIME, Dec. 2, 1935, et ante), died last week. In a trice pathologists of Northwestern University medical school took out: 1) her lungs, to verify the pneumonia which was the immediate cause of her death; 2) an ovary to examine the tumor which mysteriously developed a few weeks ago, caused her to waste away, reduced her resistance to the pneumonia; and 3) her strange, ineffective brain. Then she was buried with a fresh corsage of gardenias...
Franklin Roosevelt is not only the nation's No. 1 citizen but its No.1 victim of infantile paralysis. He is not only President of the U. S. but president of the Georgia Warm Springs Foundation. Warm Springs is close to the Roosevelt heart, but lately he has come to feel that poliomyelitis must be combated in a long & strong push on a national front...