Word: deathly
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...offered a bill which, he promised, would "deter Congress from stepping into a state responsibility, in which they have no more business than they do in cases of rape, burglary or traffic violations." The bill provided a penalty for lynch mobsters of from five years' imprisonment to death. Last week, four days before Harry Truman's civil rights program was talked to a standstill in the U.S. Senate (see above), the Texas House of Representatives passed the bill, virtually without debate, 125 to 1. The senate and Governor Beauford Jester were expected to make...
Axis Sally showed no emotion at the verdict, which carries a maximum penalty of death (no traitor has ever been executed in the U.S. for treason against the U.S.), or a minimum of five years in prison and a $10,000 fine. But as she left the courtroom she indulged in a final bit of defiant dramatics and daffy reasoning that left newsmen wondering if she really knew what the trial had all been about. Said Traitor Gillars: "I wish those who judge me would be willing to risk their lives for America...
Voznesensky was a protégé of the late Andrei Zhdanov. His removal may be explained by the death of his patron, or by charges made before the Supreme Soviet last week that Russian industry was producing things easy to make rather than the things needed by the people...
...original versions of Jesse's life and death and his brother's revenge had Henry Fonda, John Carradine, gorgeous technicolor and a fast-moving story. None of these were available this year, apparently, and the present low-budget production is a savorless blending of improbable dialogue, a yawn-provoking plot, and poor acting. One member of the cast didn't even bother to learn his lines. He must have sensed that it wouldn't make much difference...
...happen to know that Cynthia loves not you but Kelley. When she marries you she'll feel sorry for you, but she'll still love Kelley." With, that he backs, catlike, out of the saloon, leaving the assassin to his fate worse than death...