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...William Oxley Thompson, 75, for a quarter of a century president of Ohio State University, now its President Emeritus. Dr. Thompson, once Moderator of the Presbyterian Church, had sent President Hoover a belated New Year's message in which he deplored, in mellow, age-ripened words, the present "mob-mindedness" of public life, the self-interest of those who press in upon the President. Wondering how any President could keep his sanity, he exhorted President Hoover to have the patience of Lincoln, to "be true to the ideals of the masses...
Fired by the speeches they had heard in the hall, the crowd eddied out upon Boston Common where was displayed a Coast Guard recruiting sign, guarded by Chief Water Tender George Briggs. "Dirty murderers!" cried the crowd as it became a mob, knocked down Briggs. tore his recruiting poster to shreds, kicked its frame to bits about the Common. Briggs fled in a taxi...
TIME'S source for lynching information was the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People, which set down as a "lynching" the shooting of Ella Wiggins, white, in Gastonia last September. She was killed when a mob sprayed bullets in a truckful of men and women going to a Communist mass meeting (TIME, Sept...
...reduced. Anti-Borno politicos seized upon this strike to spread the gospel of unrest through the canebrake country. A general strike began to gather momentum. At the Port-au-Prince customs house, under U. S. control, native employes rioted, broke office furniture and equipment, manhandled U. S. agents. A mob gathered before the National City Bank branch, jeered, threw rocks. Promptly the U. S. High Commissioner, Brig. General John Henry Russell of the Marine Corps, declared martial law, stationed Marines with machine guns on President Borno's palace lawn. President Borno announced that he would not seek a third...
...wild back country to join the strike. They were met by a detachment of 20 Marines who told them the strike was over, warned them to disperse. Instead, the Haitians, armed only with machetes, clubs, field tools, attempted to rush the town. The Marines volleyed over the mob's head, then scattered them with 250 rounds of direct fire. Five Haitians were killed, 20 wounded. One Marine was bitten in the hand...