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Last year ten Negroes were lynched in the land. Mississippi killed half of them. Louisiana and Texas ran neck and neck for second place with two each. Missouri brought up the rear with one. With five weeks of the year to run, the 1929 score of Negroes lynched stood last week at nine (Florida, three; Mississippi, two; Alabama, North Carolina, Tennessee and Texas, one each), when out of Texas came grisly news of another lynching. But this was a special lynching and did not alter Texas' position on the Black List. Instead of a Negro, the Texans lynched a white...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: String Him Up | 12/2/1929 | See Source »

...himself as Santa Claus and, with three companions, robbed a bank at Cisco, Tex., killed two policemen. Captured and condemned to death, Robber Ratliff was returned to the county jail at Eastland, Tex., to undergo a sanity test. Eastlanders grumbled at the law's delay. Feigning paralysis, Ratliff last week snatched a gun from Jailor Tom Jones, killed him, but failed to escape...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: String Him Up | 12/2/1929 | See Source »

What the Treasury Department in Washington characterized as a "wide de- parture," what many a Wet construed as a reduction of the law to an absurdity, what many a Dry welcomed as a solution of the problem of punishing liquor buyers occurred last week in the U. S. District Court at Peoria, 111. There Federal Judge Louis Fitzhenry laid down a new and startling interpretation of the Jones...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: PROHIBITION: Millions of Felons | 12/2/1929 | See Source »

Last fortnight the Senate, wondering what had become of the $1,719,654 additional Prohibition enforcement appropriation allowed the Treasury Department earlier in the year (TIME, March 11), asked Secretary of the Treasury Mellon for a report. Last week he made his accounting...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: The Smaller the Higher | 12/2/1929 | See Source »

Progress of the President's proposed transformation, of Washington from one of the wetter to quite the driest of cities in the land: last week John F. J. Herbert. Prohibition Administrator at Baltimore, whose territory included the District of Columbia, was transferred to Helena, Mont. His assistant, John Joseph Quinn, was suspended pending investigation of charges against him. To Baltimore was shifted Administrator Thomas Elijah Stone, top-notcher, credited with abating Detroit's huge liquor influx from Canada...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: Unwetting Washington | 12/2/1929 | See Source »

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