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...attention to the death sentence passed on eight young blackamoors at Scottsboro for raping two white girls in a freight train (TIME, June 22). He denounced these sentences as "legal lynching," demanded that the black boys be retried by a black jury. Into such a frenzy of excitement and protest did he whip his audience that they were openly threatening the life of Governor Benjamin Meek Miller unless he released the condemned...
...Mayor's recall while the conservative home-owned Seattle Times fumed against "foreign-owned press caterwauling." Many a Seattlite was grieved to see this dirty municipal contest come to a head at the height of tourist season. In fact the recall election was postponed a week on protest of the Seattle Lodge of Elks, hosts for their order's national convention, because "the turmoil and agitation would have a most adverse effect" on the brother Elks' appreciation of the city...
...George ("Yurga") Endres and Alexander Magyar in the office of the Detroit Hungarian News. Captain Endres, a Wartime flyer of the Austro-Hungarian army, and Captain Magyar (real name: Wilchak), his pupil, wanted to fly from the U. S. to Budapest. The flight would be a great demonstration of protest against the division of Hungarian territory by the Treaty of Trianon after the War. Sausagemaker Szalay (pronounced sah-la-ee) saw his chance. He mortgaged his salami factory for $20,000, turned the money over to Endres & Magyar to buy a plane. Some 8,000 other compatriots (mostly in Michigan...
Syndicalists, nearest native equivalent of Communists, held a convention in Madrid to plan for a great general strike to protest the assembly of the Republican Cortes, which they consider far too conservative. First move was to call out all the Syndicalist employes of the telephone company...
...writing to you to protest the interview with Mr. & Mrs. Clarence Warren...