Word: executioner
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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"The fatal difficulty is the Speaker's insistence upon provision that loans should be made to individuals, private corporations, partnerships, states and municipalities on any conceivable security and for every purpose. Such an undertaking makes the Reconstruction Corp. the most gigantic banking and pawnbroking business in all history. ... It...
In The Forge (TIME, March 23, 1931) Author Stribling gave the first spin to a projected three-novel cycle about the South. He told of the fortunes and misfortunes of the Vaiden family during the Civil War. The Store tells particularly of Col. Miltiades Vaiden and his rise to notoriety...
"It is the essence of our task that we must act with speed! . . . Despair is a fortress which must be carried by storm and cannot be conquered by long siege." Putting on sham speed, the Conference adopted at once an agreement to "reserve . . . during the period of the conference . . . the...
¶ To review the case of seven Negroes convicted at Scottsboro, Ala. of raping two white girls and sentenced to death (TIME, JUNE 22). Defense attorneys claimed their clients were denied their constitutional rights and were tried amid scenes of mob passion under military guard by an all-white jury...
Significance & Screams, Though M. le Professeur Charles Rist did the actual work of execution last week, the French Government has long been in a mood to force the Rumanian Government back to the path of sound finance and moral decency.