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...Duce has not yet said what he will do if the League does right by Ethiopia and indicts Italy for the rape of the dusky virgin to the south. But Europe knows the stormy petrol of Rome well enough to be sure that strong-arm action on the part of Geneva will send the third illustrious guest belting from a party which he considers to be getting too wild to suit his simple tastes. With Italy, Germany, and Japan forming a harmonious trio off in a corner thumbing their noses at the League of Nations, France and Great Britain would...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Yesterday | 5/22/1935 | See Source »

...order by Mrs. Jessie Daniels Ames of Atlanta's Commission on Interracial Cooperation. Said she: "I am opposed to the Costigan-Wagner bill, but I am even more opposed to Southern Senators using Southern white women as a defense of lynching." Other Southern Senators, arguing not against the rape of women but against the rape of states' rights, remained adamant...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE CONGRESS: Work Done, May 6, 1935 | 5/6/1935 | See Source »

...there on time. A professional executioner had been brought in from Illinois. And William Thomas De Boe had dressed himself as if he were going down to Paducah for a dance when he marched up the 13 steps to the scaffold to become the first white man hanged for rape in Kentucky's history. What took place between the time he reached the gallows and the time the trap was sprung made news from coast to coast...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: Death of De Boe | 4/29/1935 | See Source »

...lovely old house and a good farm. Charlie does his duty by all of them but occasionally he will break out. When his wife is in the hospital he seduces a willing mountain girl, who afterwards dies. He takes his innocent nephew to a brothel. But when he rapes Virginia, 37-year-old spinster friend of his wife's, Charlie goes too far. Virginia has him arrested. At his trial Charlie breaks out on the witness stand, tells too much of the truth. He is sent to the penitentiary for a long term. As the story ends his pardon...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Gesture of Despair | 3/18/1935 | See Source »

...Never before in the United States and nowhere else in the civilized world has a depression been permitted to scuttle the schools and rape the intellectual resources of the national future." Such is the strong, concise language of Dr. Glenn Frank, the able President of the University of Wisconsin. Every individual who maintains the slightest contact with his locality knows the sorry state of the public schools far too well to challenge the truth of this statement. The desperate plight of Chicago was merely the most publicized of many similar instances. All over the country the casual observer will discover...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Yesterday | 2/28/1935 | See Source »

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