Word: victorias
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...trials there had been noise and bustle, the clicking of typewriters, he glare of camera flashlights. Last week Judge Callahan excluded all photographers. All was quiet as a squat, hard-faced blonde in a blue chiffon dress and a peaked black hat climbed to the witness stand, chewing snuff. Victoria Price, twice-married mill-hand, onetime vagrant, told in less than ten minutes and in language so foul that newshawks could not print it, the story of her alleged rape. Then she pointed to Heywood Patterson as one of her assailants...
Defense Counsel Samuel S. Leibowitz painstakingly cross-examined her while Judge Callahan bickered and interrupted. At a dozen points Victoria Price contradicted the story she had told at the two earlier trials. Lawyer Leibowitz read each contradiction into the record. When he sought to establish that she had spent the night with two hoboes in a Chattanooga "jungle" day before the alleged rape, Judge Callahan cut him short to protect "her chastity...
Ruby Bates, the other girl in the gondola car, was not there to corroborate Victoria Price's story. In a New York City hospital, she had already reversed her testimony months before, claiming the rape story was a frame-up. But Orville Gilley, hobo "poet" who had been in the gondola, did corroborate it. Defendant Patterson, nervous and blinking, took the stand to swear that he had never seen any girls on the train. "They told us in jail if we didn't say we done it, they'd kill us,'' he blurted. "They told...
...calm evening in Washington last week a tiny mirror twitched in a tiny spasm. So at the moment did similar mirrors in London, Bombay, Frankfurt am Main, Ottawa, Pasadena, Victoria, New York City. Each twitching mirror reflected a beam of light on a revolving drum covered with photosensitive paper. When seismologists saw these jagged tracks they knew that a mighty earthquake was somewhere in progress...
...Worst earthquake shocks in 35 years of recording," reported Victoria...