Word: crimed
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...thousands of photographs in Madrid's police headquarters showing the bodies of these victims-whose only crime was being suspected of having sympathies for the enemy-and I estimate that be- tween 10,000 and 15,000 have been shot down in the capital alone," continued U. P.'s Ziffren. "A Madrid militia commander, whom I had known for several years, offered to take me to a 'bumping off party' and show me how it was done...
...dispose of China's greatest kidnapping of all time as smoothly as Britain disposed of the one and only voluntary abdication in her history (see p. 13). Sleek, polished, cosmopolitan Kidnapper Chang declared: "I am by nature rustic, surly and unpolished, an impudent lawbreaker who committed a great crime. ... I was completely unworthy to return with you, Chiang Kaishek, to Nanking, so I have followed you. ... I shall never decline what is beneficial to our country even if it means my death...
...Marshal and his troops "mere bandits," declared it was beneath the Government's dignity to treat with young Chang, and clarioned that for him to be killed by a Chinese process of slow torture known as "the 10,000 Deaths" would be an insufficient expiation of his monstrous crime in kidnapping the Dictator. After this the Government released to China and the world its official recording and translation into English (presumably by Mme Chiang) of just what the Young Marshal had said. According to the Government he had NOT said the Dictator was dead, quite the contrary...
...outline of a 1920 payroll robbery. Three gangsters - Trock Estrella (Eduardo Ciannelli), Shadow (Stanley Ridges), and Garth Esdras (Paul Guilfoyle) - steal a car that belongs to Bartolomeo Romagna. After they have murdered the paymaster, they abandon the car. Romagna, partly because he is a radical, is convicted of the crime. His small son is standing on the hill above the prison the night he dies in the electric chair. Obsessed by the desire to clear his father's name, Mio Romagna (Burgess Meredith) gets a clue 15 years later when he learns from a newspaper clipping that Garth - suspected...
Coblentz-Wilson-Ericsson ($3). Academic study thoroughly recounting the bloody doings of the two vigilante committees that administered justice in San Francisco from 1851 to 1856, together with an account of the crime wave (1,200 murders in four years) that made them necessary...