Word: deathly
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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California law provides that each death sentence has automatic appeal to the Supreme Court before final judgement is made and date of execution set. At that time none on condemned row had gone through the Supreme Court. At date of this letter my appeal is still before the Court. In cases where the Supreme Court upholds conviction it usually is a matter of 3 to 4 months before actual execution takes place...
...George (1839-1897), who proposed to end depressions and poverty by levying a single tax on land values, thus freeing the land for productive use and restoring to capital & labor the profits wrested from them by landowners, was nearly elected mayor of New York City in 1886. After his death, his creed languished. Only a handful of believers were left when in 1932 one Oscar H. Geiger, a businessman, started the Henry George School. Geiger gathered 84 pupils, taught them one course with George's Progress and Poverty as the text, died at the end of the year. Next...
...Elbert II, he left a lucrative property-the Roycrofter Corporation in East Aurora, N. Y. Inspired by William Morris, 19th-Century British arts-&-crafter, the Roycrofters printed and bound books, made elegant whatnots of pottery, wood, metal and hand-tooled leather. After the elder Hubbard's death, however, the community slipped financially, lately was $160,000 in the red. Last week, a religious organization called the Federation of Churches of Infinite Science, Inc. contracted to buy the Roycroft properties for $121,500 and take over most of the community's debts...
Lamaist Tibet became a godless land nearly nine months ago when death came to the second, and more spiritual, of its "living gods," His Serenity the Panchen (or Tashi) Lama, "Buddha of Boundless Light" (TIME, Dec. 13). Long dead was Tibet's latest temporal god, the Dalai Lama. Last week, according to reports from India, Tibet still lacked living gods, was becoming increasingly embarrassed at having in its midst one god who was extremely dead. From Jyekundo, where the Panchen Lama died, a retinue of 1,000 lamas, Chinese soldiers and relations of the Buddha set out last winter...
...Logan Pearsall Smith (Trivia, More Trivia, All Trivia, Re-perusals and Re-collections). So did the New York Times in its early editions. Both newspapers later announced that Author Smith was not dead at all. Explanation: from publishers Little, Brown & Co. in Boston had come false reports of the death of Mr. Smith, recovering from pneumonia in Reykjavik, Iceland...