Word: deathly
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...lost a $5,000 solitaire from her finger, which the horse swallowed. Scrapings from the manure pile for several weeks failed to reveal the ring. X-rays were taken which also failed to locate it. Full value has been paid by an insurance company which claims the horse at death since it is illegal to kill the animal without the owner's permission...
...whether he was still under suspicion. Two Federal officers went to question him, obtained a confession. He was tried for murder, repudiated his confession (which he said had been obtained by threats to drag his fiancee into the case) and convicted. Five times reprieved, he was still in the death house awaiting execution last May when Franklin Roosevelt, trolling for tarpon off Texas, received a letter from Newshawk Philip H. Love of the Washington Star. Newshawk Love reported that, preparing himself to write about the execution, he had consulted an account he had written six years ago at the time...
...considered Carlo one of the most determined enemies of the Mussolini regime. He had preserved contact with his friends in Italy and was able to print information which the Rome Government found embarrassing." One kind of embarrassing information that Carlo continually published which very probably brought him to his death was stolen lists of daily instructions to the tightly controlled Italian press from the Propaganda Ministry. Few hours before the Roselli murders, last week in Manhattan Editor Girolamo Valenti of La Stampa Libera, also antiFascist. printed a five-month set of these instructions which he admitted came to him "from...
...villages, cried, ''Bilbao never has been captured ... I swear to you it will not fall now." Back and forth over bloody Mount Santo Domingo on the northern shoulder of San Marina Ridge swept the hand-to-hand fighting. Five flights of German or Italian-built bombers poured death onto the hillsides. Four battalions of Rightists held the Santa Maria heights. Basque defenders, punished beyond belief reformed for their last desperate resistance to the grim, tightening circle with which Generalissimo Francisco Franco hoped finally to extinguish the proud Basque boast which had stood for 700 years...
Governor Hurley deals Oath Law repeal bill death blow by veto...