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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...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: RACES: Get It Done Quick | 2/3/1936 | See Source »

...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...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: RACES: Get It Done Quick | 2/3/1936 | See Source »

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...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Jacobsen, Ferrell Receive du Pont, Rogers Fellowships | 10/28/1935 | See Source »

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...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: RELIEF: Headlines & Deadlines | 7/15/1935 | See Source »

...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...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business & Finance: Oysters, Junk, Perfume, Steel | 6/3/1935 | See Source »

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