Word: executioner
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Industry. There were 10,000,000 industrial workers in Russia before the Revolution. There were only 1,500,000 more after ten years of Soviet rule. But as the First Five-Year Plan gave way to the Second, the Second, less publicized, to the Third, as Stalingrad grew on the...
That a portion of the Harvard Faculty, that stronghold of virulent individualism, has taken initiative in protesting against the execution of Federal Arts is a challenge to teachers throughout the country. For teachers are not mere pedants whose work is signed, scaled and delivered with a diploma. They are custodians...
Reactions. The Nazi press naturally declared that Herr Hitler's speech was a master work. Exulted the Fuhrer's own Volkischer Beobachter: "The entire world was earwitness to the crushing rebuff of Roosevelt. . . . After this political execution of Roosevelt by the Führer, one is inclined to...
The "execution" was to take place forthwith, and so Billy's neck was forcibly put on the block; whereupon he was struck with a wet cord that had been chilled, very conveniently, to more or less the temperature of a steel blade. Billy's simpleminded brain reacted most...
What Virginia's handsome Representative Clifton Woodrum called "the best job Congress has done this session" was performed last week in the House more through anger than kindness. All set for execution was a log-rolling act wherein the proponents of $150,000,000 more for WPA would vote...