Word: deathly
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Every person guilty of murder in the first degree shall suffer death.-U. S. Criminal Code, Sect...
...ancient and musty Federal statutes because most murders occur within the jurisdiction of a State, most murderers are executed by the people of a State. But last week under them 120,000,000 people-everybody in the U. S.-joined together in their might and majesty and put to death a Federal murderer near Fort Lauderdale, Fla. It was grim business. On Aug. 7, 1927, James Horace Alderman, fond of being called "King of the Rum Runners," was navigating his liquor-laden craft some 35 miles off the Florida east coast when overhauled by Coast Guard Cutter No. 249. "King...
Utterly unprepared was the U. S. to impose the death penalty. Its agents first attempted to borrow the jail of Broward County for the execution, were chased away by the County Commissioners, who insisted a U. S. hanging should occur on U. S. property. So a great gallows was erected within the gaunt metal hangar of the U. S. Coast Guard station near Fort Lauderdale. Thither was escorted Alderman, full of repentance and new-found "religion." Greatest secrecy surrounded the execution. Newsmen were barred under threats of contempt of court. Guardsmen, pale in the pale dawn light, ringed the hangar...
...Prohibition . . . most responsible for its failures." Observed Mrs. Willebrandt: "Politics and liquor are as inseparable a combination as beer and pretzels." Though she did not name the late great Boies Penrose, she cited the fact that $250,000 in cash was found in a safe deposit box on his death and insinuated that this was "dirty money" for the political manipulation of Prohibition enforcement in Pennsylvania. She recalled appeals made by politicians for such prominent convicted 'leggers as George Remus (Cincinnati) and the La Montagne brothers (Manhattan). Declared Mrs. Willebrandt: "It takes backbone to stand up under the corrosive...
Harum-scarum Prince Franz is 76. He was five years old when his elder brother, Johann, came to the throne in 1858, and therefore he had to wait over 70 years for Good Prince Johann's death and his own accession a few months ago. So good was Johann, in the purest dynastic sense, that Prince Franz lived in daily terror for some 20 years lest his affair with a commoner be found out. His secret morganatic marriage a decade ago scarcely decreased the couple's anxiety. Today the new Mother of Liechtenstein is 51. She and Prince...