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Oliver subsequently became a chief justice in Massachusetts but was very unpopular because of his pro-British sentiments in the years before the Revolution. Several impeachments failed to remove him, but finally a mob dragged the judge from his bench only to let him escape. The next day an armed guard protected Oliver successfully...
...Passion According to St. Matthew" sets the Gospel to music with soloists and chorus taking different parts. This required skillful dramatic characterization, which the Chorus captured--whether it was the tenderness of compassion or the savagery of the angry mob. But in spite of the size of the chorus, inner voice parts were not sufficiently clear and contrapuntal until the second part...
...trouble is," he continues, "some of the fellows in this school have been pampered all their lives. You can't develop your arm when you have a governess doing everything for you. You and I," he confides (assuming correctly that this writer was one of da mob), "we built up a natural throwing ability by heaving rocks and broken bottles...
According to a story which appeared on the front page of the same issue, Griswold was called out of his home to address the 2,000-man mob...
...mob muscled in by the simple method of eliminating the previous owner, James Ragen. In 1946, Ragen told police that if he was killed, the men responsible would be Tony Accardo, Jake Guzik, and Murray ("The Camel") Humphreys. Ragen was shot down in a noisy ambush on a South Side Chicago corner in 1946, then poisoned in his hospital bed when he showed signs of recovering from his wounds. "After his death," concluded the committee, "the mob took over and that was that...