Word: executioner
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Unheeded Plea. Mrs. Ayrton Gould, a Labor M.P., had her own objections to the death sentence. She said it demoralized prison personnel and made prison jobs repulsive to able people. She recalled the case of Edith Thompson, hanged 25 years ago for helping her lover dispose of her husband. Mrs...
Ailing General Chen Cheng was savagely criticized for his failure while commander in chief in the northeast. Screams rose for his execution. "We must restore morale with a man's head . . ." Many pleaded for the arming of village militia-why did not the government trust the people? A Kirin...
Nonetheless Cripps knew that, in the long run, recovery and the Labor Party's fate depended as much on British workers' willingness to hold the wage line as it did on any other measures in his budget. Said he: ". . . We must remember that the economic plan is not...
This week, as the Concertgebouw gets ready to celebrate its 60th birthday, there is only one orchestra in Europe that can approach it in perfection and polish-Vienna's 100-year-old Philharmonic (TIME, March 29). Europe had heard and judged: in the last year, the sprightly Concertgebouw has...
His official red silk cape thrown over an overcoat, Prosecutor Ho Chung-pan of the Hopehi High Court sat behind a small wooden table upon which was placed a writing set and paper. Yoshiko stood at attention four feet from him. "Your appeal has been rejected," Ho piped shrilly. "I...