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...onetime (1911-25) Congressman, and Leon W. Harris. As a "drinking Prohibitionist" Senator Blease openly condoned lynching, declared: "When the Constitution comes between me and the virtue of a white woman, I say to hell with the Constitution!" Candidate Harris, solicitor at Walhalla where he is prosecuting a lynching mob (TIME, May 5) ran a poor third in the primary. Senator Blease and Candidate Byrnes will enter a run-off election next week. Six years ago Senator Blease defeated Candidate Byrnes in a similar run-off for the Senatorial nomination after a whispering campaign had revived the fact that Byrnes...
...another child, Rolf. Then she divorced McPherson and took up soul-saving. Once, lacking a crowd, she stood on a chair in the middle of a little town, head upraised, in silent prayer. As soon as a crowd gathered she jumped down, shouted "Quick!", led the bewildered mob to her tent...
Last week Payne was taken to gaol at Stinnett, Tex., to save him from mob violence in Amarillo. There he confessed to the murder and to four previous attempts on his wife's life, asked a speedy execution...
South Australia. At Adelaide, a mob of Communists and unemployed workers, followed by a straggling crowd of women and children, marched to the state government building, carrying placards with the legends "Hands off Russian India!" and "Not a Man, Not a Gun for India!" An interview with Premier Hill was postponed until after the constabulary had dispersed the crowd...
...Manhattan a dreary meeting of Communists in Union Square, their stamping ground, ended when a few rocks were flung by the mob. Police rushed, clubbed, scattered the meeting. A bystanding newsgatherer, off duty, was slapped down, suffered minor concussions. Casualties: six injured, two arrested...