Word: elliott
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...final finger at the end of the Law's long arm in Massachusetts, New York, New Jersey and Pennsylvania is a tall gaunt man named Robert G. Elliott, official executioner for those four States. After society had finally decided it must take the lives of Communists Sacco & Vanzetti last summer, it was Executioner Elliott who threw the electric switch. He also killed Ruth Snyder, Judd Gray, and over 100 less famed criminals. When he took up his profession in 1926 he tried to keep it secret. But his name leaked out after a year. He has been uneasy ever...
...Elliott's house is in a place called Dunton, a drab quarter of the Borough of Queens, N. Y. One night last week, an hour past midnight, a bulky object lying on the porch of the Elliott house detonated with a roar of which the magnitude befitted the object of its protest. This object was not Robert G. Elliott or his wife and two children, all in bed upstairs. It was society...
...neighborhood was shaken awake, showered and riddled with flying ragged slugs and chunks of metal. The front of the Elliott house yawned wretchedly in the night. People stumbled down the street to see. The police riot squad swept up. All yammered and exclaimed over the explosion, little realizing the full justice of its result. Robert G. Elliott, Mrs. Elliott and their children all came out of their house unhurt...
...just elected are: Professor Walter Fenno Dearborn, director of the Psycho-Educational Clinic: Professor Ralph Barton Perry of the Philosophy Department: Professor Henry Bradford Washburn '91, professor of Church History; Assistant Professor Joshua Whatmough: Assistant Professor James Phinney Baxter III: Assistant Professor Arthur Harrison Cole: Assistant Professor William Yandell Elliott: Professor Clarence Henry Har- ing '07; Professor Warren Milton Persons; and Professor Arthur Meler Schlesinger...
...success of "Morris Plan" banks made enterprising bankers study the field. In New York City the National City group made surveys ; in Buffalo the Marine Trust group (Chairman Elliott C. McDougal, President George Franklin Rand,* Vice-President, Seymour H. Knox). Last week the Marine Trust announced that it would loan money at 6%, without security, to salaried persons. Mr. Mitchell's National City had anticipated Buffalo...