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...December 1933, millions of citizens were sampling Repeal liquor for the first time. Same month, for the third time, at Decatur Negro Patterson heard himself condemned to death by a jury of twelve white men (TIME...
...April 1933, the U. S. S. Akron was lost off the New Jersey coast. Same month, this time in Decatur, Ala., bullet-headed Haywood Patterson, leader of the "Scottsboro Boys," was found guilty of rape by a jury that fixed the death penalty. Scrupulous Judge James E. Horton set aside the verdict as unwarranted by the evidence, thereby signed his own political death warrant (TIME, April...
James O. Ferrell 3G, of Decatur, Alabama, has received the Rogers Fellowship. He got an A.B. from the University of Alabama in '31, and an A.M. here last year...
Indiana: city water main extension in Decatur; demolition of school building in La Porte County; construction of artificial lake in St. Bernice; construction of city athletic field in Mishawaka; construction of various low log dams in Morgan County; ditch repairing in Miami County; city library book repairs in Terre Haute...
...Louis members of the Associated Stock Exchanges heard the first public speech of Charles R. Gay, new president of the New York Stock Exchange. Mr. Gay pleaded for a better understanding of his institution's functions, promised co-operation with SEC. Illinois bankers gathered at Decatur to deplore the Administration's Banking Bill, and New Jersey bankers met at Atlantic City to do the same thing. The Business & Professional Women's Clubs of New York State were busy at Saratoga Springs. In Manhattan, where 1,000 conventions are held every year, the perfume and cosmetic industry...