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...Huntsville, Ala., when the Negroes, aged from 14 to 21, boarded the train, pitched out five of the young women's companions, knocked the other two unconscious. Then, the girls said, they were raped. Their assailants were surrounded, overcome by a posse when the train reached Paint Rock, Ala. Within two weeks and two days of the arrest, three juries returned a verdict of guilty against eight of the Negroes. They were sentenced to death in the electric chair on July 10. A mistrial was ordered for the youngest. Throughout the trials, 1,000 National Guardsmen were held...
...Trust Co. in honor of the U. S. Ambassador to Germany. There he chatted with his friend Thomas William Lament of the rival House of Morgan and a collection of bank presidents. Having lunched well, he remarked that it was "a fine day for golf," and went to Piping Rock Club which he helped to found years ago on Long Island's smart North Shore. There he played against his daughter, Mrs. Richard Brown West Hall, whose husband, a member of Winthrop, Mitchell & Co., was at his office. Then he went to his Oyster Bay home. Jovial, hungry...
...Clark ("Bank On the South") Caldwell, high-flying Tennessee financier and promoter. Last November Lea-Caldwell enterprises, which were beginning to take the whole South for their province, went crashing down into the dust of Depression (TIME, Nov. 24). Last week it seemed likely that their financial crash would rock Governor Horton, their friend and ally, down into political ruin...
...People now realize that the President has been the most stable force in U. S. business. He has stood pat. . . . The tendency to blame him for every cow that went dry has vanished. . . . The President has accomplished some difficult navigation in rough seas. More people have tried to rock the boat than usual in a depression. The boat rockers have succeeded in getting about everybody's feet wet but the President has seen to it that they haven't capsized the ship...
...landslide at Cinq-Mars, France, as he attempted to save the life of a Mme Briand,* servant at a chateau. Hearing Mme Briand's cries in a barn cut into a chalk cliff by the River Loire, General Dunlap rushed in, followed by M. Briand. Earth and rock buried the three. Next day diggers found Mme Briand alive...