Word: executioner
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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> When Ruby Laffoon was Governor of Kentucky in 1934, he stayed the execution of Murderer Sylvester Warner, 24, to study his case. Fourteen months passed, "Happy" Chandler succeeded Ruby Laffoon. Years passed, 25 other prisoners marched to their doom, and still Murderer Warner, forgotten, waited in the death house. Last...
In Paris, when the assassin of Rath heard of these decrees, he vowed in anguish: "I will pray every Monday for forgiveness for what I have done to my people." In England meanwhile Lord Rothschild said that nothing short of the execution of the Jews of Germany could be worse...
The good feeling that the first hundred children will carry home on Saturday will be so inevitable, so natural, that one might suspect the University's publicity department of originating the scheme. Credit for the plan's conception and execution goes to Brooks House and William J. Bingham '16, himself...
Manuel, a hard, determined Communist, trained by Ximenes, becomes a brigade commander, checks the rout at Aranjuez, begins to learn war after he orders the execution of panicky deserters and is told by Ximenes: "You'll get used even to that!"
Because history is at best violent, violence crowds his books. In Man's Hope, as in his previous work, he writes most intensely of those moments when hope has finally vanished from men's lives-when the revolution has failed or the plans fallen through, when escape has...