Word: executioner
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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In Washington last week Juan Terry Trippe, affable, granitic president of Pan American Airways, received from the hands of President Roosevelt the bronze certificate of award of the Collier Trophy, bestowed every year for distinguished service to aviation. The trophy itself, a lush piece of statuary two feet high, stood...
In what was called the first actual trial on charges of spreading disease germs in warfare, two Frenchmen. Jean Boujennec and Louis Chabrat, were arraigned last week before a Rightist court martial at Pamplona. The Court took note of their confession that they had been paid $3.750, inspected tubes found...
Upborne on one of Denver's first re- form waves, Mayor Robert W. Speer was re-elected in 1908 and promptly closed all the city's gambling houses. Of these the toughest, most renowned was the old Arcade at 16th and Larimer streets. The Arcade's owner...
Died. The Maharanee of Indore, 22, daughter of the Jagirdar of Kolapur; after an operation; at Samaden, Switzerland. When she was 10 she married the Maharaja of Indore, who next year packed off to Oxford. He succeeded to the throne in 1930 when British pressure forced his father, who had...
Announcing that he would appeal John Hunt revealed that he had spent a night in jail trying to convert his cellmate Robert S. James, a barber awaiting execution for drowning his wife after trying to murder her with a rattlesnake. Prisoner Hunt found Prisoner James "receptive."