Word: chair
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Illinois' last execution by hanging, before the electric chair was adopted. On the gallows Mr. Hanna asked, received Murderer Birger's forgiveness for what he was about to do. Birger gladly shook hands with Hanna but refused the proffered hand of the sheriff...
...ring of agricultural philosophers who sit around Son Wallace's chair included year and a half ago George Peek (as AAAdministrator). But Mr. Peek departed after a difference of doctrine with Son Wallace's chief guide, philosopher & friend, Rexford Guy Tugwell. Today Undersecretary Tugwell. chiefly occupied with his part as director of national "resettlement" under the Works Relief Act, is not the foremost member of that philosophical ring. Chester C. Davis, whom the elder Wallace originally brought to Washington to work on the McNary-Haugen plan, is now Son Wallace's chief AAA man. Those...
...Glencoe home of James M. R. Glaser of Rosenbaum Bros, (grain brokers).* In his private bar was a large mural panel entitled The History of Bootlegging. In vaguely Riveraesque manner it showed the familiar figure of Al Capone with a blowsy blonde on the arm of his chair, five scowling henchmen, machine gunners, trucks, planes, motor boats, and the silhouetted figures of couples dancing in a speakeasy (see cut). It had been painted during the Chicago World's Fair of 1933. So proud of his work was the artist that British newspapers announced last week that he has made...
...electrocuter of bedbugs; eyeglasses for chickens to keep them from being pecked by other chickens; small round-pointed drill to produce dimples; egg-marker to be attached to the hen; automatic hat-tipper, to work which the user needs only to bow his head; combined rocking-chair and churn...
...meeting, which was an end-of-the-year party, included a number of shooting games handily won by Captain Penrod. To lend aerial atmosphere to one called "Fighting in the Clouds," the shooter was placed on a chair perched atop a table, a "joystick" in one hand, and a pistol in the other, and told to explode some wildly jouncing balloons