Word: executioner
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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THE SALOON IN THE HOME-Ridgely Hunt & George S. Chappell-Coward-McCann ($2).* Compilers Hunt & Chappell put up a blatant front of impartiality on the Wet & Dry question. At the top of every page they reprint some moral tale or verse from some such temperance sourcebook as No Gin Today...
Mightier than the Soviet Supreme Court is the ZIK. The Presidium (standing committee) of ZIK met in Moscow last week to temper Red justice with Red mercy. During the previous night, at 11:27 p. m., the Supreme Court justices (including two workmen) had brought in their verdict upon the...
Instead of an execution came a meeting of the presidium of the ZIK, the Central Executive Committee or "parliament" of the Soviet Union. The ZIK voted to commute each ten-year prison sentence to five years, each death sentence to ten years imprisonment. Official reason of the ZIK:
It is in the latter group that the efforts of Phillips Brooks House would fall if the proposed plan is put into execution. Whatever actual aid to the unemployed would be forthcoming, the project definitely places the University in a position of cooperation with the city authorities, and would give...
Most London editors denounced the 'trial as bare-faced fraud and propaganda, suggested that Professor Ramzin will never be shot, though his execution may be "officially announced." A large section of the Paris press demanded that Prime Minister Andre Tardieu recall the French Ambassador from Moscow, break off Russo...