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...state, but little has been done. The sheriff was "unable" to recognize the abductors or anything about them; it had not entered his head to resist. The International Labor Defense, which had sent down two lawyers, was generally blamed for having interfered in the sweet reasonableness of Alabaman justice...
...with the dark-fired deal. It was engineered by Mr. Caldwell personally, with a few associates. The firm, its original stake of $1,000 swelled considerably by sale of preferred stock to the public, is doing business in local stocks, local real estate, has even toyed with an Alabaman canal project...
...almost universal protest directed against Alabaman jurisdiction has been based on a number of beliefs and sympathies, but the one outstanding sentiment has been that the Scottsboro boys have not been granted fair trials. As in the Mooney case, it is a question of procedure and not of innocence. It has been evident to all those who have given even a slight inspection to the affair that in the trials at Scottaboro and Docatur the jurors were subject to an overwhelming prejudicial influence, which rendered their decisions far from impartial. At times the prisoners had to be protected...
...days after Dr. Judd's inauguration as 1931 president, the medical power of the southwest, Edward Henry Gary, 59, was chosen president for 1932. Dr. Canis a rich man. He started his wealth with medicine, increased it by marriage, multiplied it by business. An Alabaman who worked his way through Manhattan night schools and through Bellevue Hospital Medical School, he became first dean of the medical school of Baylor University and its professor of ophthalmology & otolaryngology (1902). His private eye, ear & throat practice became large. Twenty years ago he married Georgia Fonda Schneider, of an old, wealthy Texas family...
Thus did the Tennessee Legislature take its first decisive step toward removing from office the diffident, mild-mannered, 65-year-old Democrat who succeeded to the Governorship in 1927 upon the death of Austin Peay. An Alabaman by birth, Governor Horton was a village school-teacher who turned to law, practiced in Chattanooga, reached the State Senate just before his elevation. Though not a strong political personality, he was nevertheless elected Governor in 1928, re-elected...