Word: affair
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...bolt & missile episodes by last week but it had heard a lot about shooting in Massillon, Ohio (TIME, July 19). There early last month three men were fatally shot in a midnight massacre which will probably get as earnest attention from the La Follette committee as the Chicago affair. Massillon's Police Chief Stanley W. Switter testified that Republic's manager in the Canton-Massillon area, Carl Meyers, had asked him early in the strike "why the hell we didn't take action such as the Chicago police did and put 'em where they belong." Manager...
...Churchill-Lloyd George-Amery sapping and undermining of His Majesty's Government's position was a delicate lobbying and committee-room affair. As it proceeded behind the scenes, the Prime Minister squirmed and conferred in whispers with his colleagues on the Government front bench and House of Commons oratory on the bill scarcely mattered, although some of it was pungent...
...work. Routed from his bed at 3 a. m. last year with an offer to defend the Nancy Titterton bathtub murderer he refused with a snort of outraged morality. "I wouldn't touch it with a ten foot pole. It's a dirty, nasty affair. The man is a beast. The public is strongly against him. As a matter of fact that guy is sitting in the electric chair right...
...jurors do not need to convince them that Hale is guilty. Aware of the circumstances of the trial, the Governor commutes Hale's sentence of death to life imprisonment, but Flodden's seething population has by this time long since made up its mind how the affair must end. The train taking Hale to prison stops beside a swamp and an angry crowd breaks into the baggage car where he is sitting with two detectives. Hale opens the door to jump, but looking up at him are the faces of the lynch mob. There is nothing much left...
DUET IN DISCORD-Elizabeth Garner- Knopf ($2). Unblushing but tastefully written tale of the Caribbean love-affair between a 43-year-old English woman and a youthful, deceptively virile writer, as told by the bitterly frustrated woman...