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...probably be called a hypocrite for leaving the pulpit to take this job. A fellow wrote me I'd go to hell for it. Maybe he's right. If he is, I won't be travelling a lonesome road...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: Preacher Militiaman | 11/11/1929 | See Source »

...Goodbye. I can't accompany you to the door, the doctors would be angry. It's my legs you know. Tell those fellows in the courtyard to go to hell...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: Armistice | 11/4/1929 | See Source »

...Fiche moi le camp! Go to hell!" he shouted from his bedroom. "I want to die in peace and I will do all I can to fool you. You shall not learn of my death until 24 hours after I have been shut in my coffin. And now go to hell again...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: Armistice | 11/4/1929 | See Source »

...here was another Sacco-Vanzetti case, had less to say. Melodrama was the introduction. A bulky something was wheeled in before the jury. The covering was whipped off to reveal a wax dummy of the slaughtered man, staring, pallid. Madness brought an interval. When a juryman, brooding long on hell and damnation, broke down and was carried yelling to a padded cell, Judge Victor Maurice Barnhill declared a mistrial. Mildness seemed the new motive. When the Aderholt trial reopened with 12 sane jurors, the prosecution had lessened the indictments to second-degree, had quashed all charges against nine defendants. Liberals...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: LABOR: Guilt at Gastonia | 10/28/1929 | See Source »

...duty; do your duty, men, and in the name of God and justice render a verdict that will be emblazoned across the sky of America as an eternal sign that justice has been done." He asserted that the union headquarters in Gastonia had been "not a cross-section of hell, but a whole section of hell! There was immorality there. Yes, immorality! Hugging and kissing in public. I'm oldfashioned. I'm a Sunday school man." Lawyer Carpenter told the jury he was defending Gastonia. "where the dove of peace hovers around the vine-clad door...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: LABOR: Guilt at Gastonia | 10/28/1929 | See Source »

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