Word: deathly
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...proved that both the principal State witnesses committed perjury. They produced photographs of Mooney with a clock in the background showing that he was over a mile from the explosion when it occurred. But after Governor William Dennison Stephens was induced by Woodrow Wilson to commute Mooney's death sentence to life imprisonment, four California Governors reopened the case only to snap it shut again...
...last week, Chinese secret-service operatives trailed a Japanese woman, with the blood of Manchu princes flowing in her veins, from Hong Kong, where she directed the activities of 370 Japanese spies in South China, to Tientsin. There, fortnight ago, they shot her dead. If this report of the death of Yoshimiko Kawashima was reliable (the Japanese promptly declared she was merely wounded, later rescued), an end was put to the career of one of Japan's ablest woman spies...
Thus began a case unequaled in the Reich since the advent of Adolf Hitler. Before its end, expected next week, no less than 122 defendants will have been heard and sentenced. At least 17 of them, including the three principals heard last week, are expected to receive death by the guillotine...
Chicago music-lovers, remarkably constant in their devotion to Conductor Stock, are also remarkably devoted to the memory of Conductor Thomas. Every year since Conductor Thomas' death, a memorial concert has been held in his honor. Last week dignified 66-year-old Stock ambled to his place on the stage of Chicago's long-used Orchestra Hall to commemorate for the 34th time the death of his predecessor. Behind him sat 2,500 rapt Chicagoans, many of them oldsters who had heard their first overture played under Thomas' energetic baton. Solemnly they listened while white-haired Stock...
...Fair to introduce tea ice cream to America. Last year when an American friend toasted his 92nd birthday (Japanese are one year old at birth) he said he expected to live to be 125. But he had previously transferred his title to his son, Taro, and was ready for death. Last week it came to Tycoon Takashi Masuda...