Word: executioner
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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The severe measures included last week a cabinet reshuffle in which Chancellor Dollfuss, who was already his own Minister of Foreign Affairs and Forestry & Agriculture took on the War Ministry and Ministry of Security as well, thus bringing under his direct control the entire armed forces of Austria as well...
Although information about Artist Smith is scant the history of most of the sitters is well-known. Reunited once more on the walls of the museum were men who had been friends and enemies. Sir William Phips made his fortune by discovering a wrecked Spanish treasure ship. An incompetent, wasteful...
To carry out the prime purpose of the Silver Purchases Act, which is to convert 25% of U. . S. monetary reserves into silver, the Treasury will have to buy 1,254,000,000 oz. of silver-about one tenth of the world's supply. Secretary Morgenthau has announced that...
Into Colorado's new lethal gas chamber at Canon City last week Warden Roy Best put a crated hog. When he turned on the gas the hog squealed, struggled, died. Next into the chamber he put an old dog, a pigeon, a brace of canaries. They all died. Nearby...
In the night they took William Cody Kelley from his cell, stripped him except for shorts and socks, marched him into the death chamber where there are three chairs. Into the middle chair they plopped Killer Kelley, strapped him tight, put a blindfold over his eyes. Beneath the chair was...