Word: executioner
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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British police in Hongkong recently obliged their French confrères by arresting the terrible N'Guyen Ai Quac and sending him back to his execution. Bearded Sikh policemen in Singapore arrested the French Communist Serge La France and shipped a bundle of incriminating documents to French authorities. After...
Fourteen Chinese had been arrested for the murder of a French planter. Six were sentenced by a French court to Death. Anxious that the execution should be comme il faut, reflecting that the condemned men were Orientals, the French Court sent for an Oriental headsman, obtained after some difficulty a...
Exactly as though they had been sentenced to Death in China, the six Chinese chained up in front of the French Hospital at Vila had their heads chopped off in the good old Chinese way. From a French standpoint the execution was a triumph. It harmonized with the French Government...
Earnest Elmo Calkins, 63, famed advertising expert, retired as president of Calkins & Holden, Inc. ''because I have become so deaf that I cannot properly perform the duties of an advertising agent, the most important of which is contact with clients." Mr. Calkins won the Edward Bok gold medal...
Army v. Shidehara. Japanese militarists roared for revenge. Not so Foreign Minister Baron Kijuro Shidehara and other members of the Wakatsuki Cabinet in Japan. They realize that Japan, a potent member of the League of Nations, must keep in Europe's good graces. But ever since the fall of...