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...send wave on wave of indignation rolling through Middleburg, across Virginia and over the entire South. George Crawford became more than a "runaway nigger," for in him the South saw symbolized its right to administer criminal justice in its own way. The South remembers the fugitive slave law whereby a Negro might murder in the South and find asylum in the North. Below the Potomac there was wild talk of a sudden increase in lynching if the Lowell ruling became permanent. Only by force of arms could the South be compelled to put Negroes on its juries. The Scottsboro case...
...Governor Ely who declared: "Any fugitive will be deluding himself to think that Massachusetts will prove a refuge for all those who might be able to fight extradition along the lines of the Crawford case." Thus, in Federal Circuit Court, "free" " Massachusetts became the attorney for "slave" Virginia...
...government to permit action. . . . State government has been getting out of hand. To bring it back under control demands centralization of power and a broad grant of authority. That power has now been granted in Indiana. . . . Instead of being the servant of the people I have become the slave of the people...
Proud of their catch, the Chilean police boasted that it would lead to extermination of Argentina's renowned white slave ring, Zwi Migdal. Argentines were skeptical. The whole thing, they observed, is a matter of profits so huge that Zwi Migdal can well afford to pay bribes big enough to keep the traffic going. Not long ago a Franchucha testified that during her first week 402 men were shown into her room, paid not quite $3 each-or nearly...
...Bowery flower that was picked often but did not wilt. Impersonated by Mae West, she thrives and collects diamonds with each picking. Mae is picked up by the story as the chatelaine of Noah Beery, a trusting old fellow who runs a cabaret and modest little white slave business. Having a bit of time to spare Mae befriends a young would-be suicidess, visits some ex-beaus who are taking the cure at Sing Sing, juggles with the attentions of Gigolo Gilbert Roland, Racketeer David Landau and Salvation Army Captain Gary Grant. Complications begin when Beery hijacks the suicidess...