Word: condemners
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...soberly the jurors filed out to deliberate. They included a watchman, a switchman, a dry goods store owner, two grocers, mechanics and salesmen, a farmer, a sheet metal worker-an average U. S. jury with a national issue in their hands. Theirs was the chance of being first to condemn a kidnapper to death. From Washington, Attorney General Cummings, spearhead of President Roosevelt's anti-crime drive, had sent his Special Assistant Joseph Berry Keenan to help speed up Missouri justice. Late into the night the jurors reviewed the facts: how Walter McGee, Oregon ex-convict, with an accomplice...
...ground floor of public stock flotations ("Just want you to know we were thinking of you") became the first clear ground for a public stand, and even here the ground was limited. Familiar enough with stockmarket tips, the average citizen could not, except in envy, condemn private individuals who enjoyed the friendship of the House of Morgan. But he could view with alarm the presence in public office of Morgan favorites. When Pennsylvania's Governor Pinchot found State Supreme Court Justices William I. Schaffer and John W. Kephart on the Morgan list, he first demanded their resignations to save...
...solemnly protest with all our force against this law, asserting that it can never be appealed to against the imprescriptible rights of the Church. . . . We condemn the principle of suppression of the Church which the State already has sanctioned in the new Constitution as the most grievous error and the most lamentable result of the laicism or of the apostasy of present-day society which aims at separating itself from...
...Mattern should be allowed to perform a dangerous and bootless flight for Chicago's glory does not seem clear. But the enthusiast for variety should not condemn our aviators without a hearing, for in comparison with other daredevils they have displayed a real fecundity of invention. Mr. Brody jumped, and seldom featly, from all our great bridges, and there was in his contortious a lack of grace monotonous to all but the local Chambers of Commerce. Many barrels ricocheted over Niagara Falls before Buffalo was convinced that the idea had lost its original savor...
That the CRIMSON seeks to deride the Liberal Club by stating that a poker game is held when a sufficient crowd for more serious business is not in attendance, that the CRIMSON decried (even though in muffled tones) the recent attempt of the Liberal Club to condemn Hitler's "All Fools" German Regime, that the CRIMSON, with characteristic puerility attempted to disparage the recent protest meeting in the Scottsboro and Mooney cases by such a distortion of the events of the meeting, that, unless one read the article closely, one would gather from the biased and doltish headlines "Arguments Break...