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Died. Robert Greene Elliott, 65, for 13 years official executioner for New York, New Jersey, Pennsylvania, Connecticut, Vermont, Massachusetts; of coronary embolism; in Richmond Hill, N. Y. Named for a Methodist minister who opposed capital punishment, tall, grey Robert Elliott electrocuted 400 persons, five of them women. Among them: Ruth Snyder & Judd Gray, Two-Gun Crowley, Sacco & Vanzetti, Bruno Richard Hauptmann. Successor to his $150-a-night job: Joseph Francel, 42, American Legionnaire, garageman and electrician, who has already officiated once, when Robert Elliott was confined to his bed last summer...
...Peak instalment buying was among families with revenues...
From Another World is Louis Untermeyer's autobiography at 53. Among other things that readers may be surprised to learn is that for 22 years Poetry's great middleman engaged in a prosperous Manhattan jewelry business. A new generation will scarcely recall that he was also on the staff of the old socialist Masses, which the Post Office Department prosecuted twice in 1918 for opposing U. S. entry into World...
...Among the speakers at tomorrow's opening session of the New York Herald Tribune's Ninth Annual Forum on Current Problems will be President Conant and Carl J. Friedrich, professor of Government...
Three promotions in the Faculty of Arts and Sciences, among those approved by the Board of Overseers on October 9 but not announced until yesterday, were released last night. At the same time four new appointments to the Administrative Boards were announced...