Word: ax
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Wound up to such a pitch that even the medieval headsman's ax, reintroduced by Nazis, has begun to seem tame. German Justice, the official organ of Minister of Justice Dr. Franz Gürtner, called last week for a harsher German punishment to be known as "living death...
...organ of German jurisprudence, "the penalty of Living Death should entail impossibility of making wills, exercising of paternal or civil rights, deprivation of nationality, impossibility of engaging in any commercial activity and complete social ostracism, the sentence to be read publicly." As Judge Görtz observes, the Nazi ax has its disadvantages "because the death penalty may establish a continued relationship between the condemned and the public"-martyrdom...
...Dominic Mintola of Toms River, N. J. spent 68? to mail to President Roosevelt a 36-lb. log given him by the local relief agency. Dolee Mintola complained that the wood was swamp gum, "tough as rubber under the ax, exuded more moisture than a water-soaked grapefruit rind" and the pieces were too large for his stove...
...meantime the old man had gone off into the swamp, without ax, hammer, or saw, with the intention of felling trees and building a log house for his family. He has not been heard from since he left...
...Plumas County, Calif., acquitted of murdering her Indian husband with an ax, Squaw Emma Elam told the judge she wanted her ax back. Given it, she asked the court to clean off the bloodstains, sharpen the blade. Said the judge, refusing her request: "Such crust...