Word: executioner
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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One thing that neither time nor politics has changed is Massachusetts' official stand on the 1927 execution of famed Radicals Nicola Sacco and Bartolomeo Vanzetti. Ten years ago Democratic Governor Charles F. Hurley curtly rejected the offer of a bronze bas-relief, designed by the late mountain-sculpturing Gutzon...
Stripped, however, of its editorial and production merits Mater Advocate stands perhaps a trifle embarrassedly exposed to the quibbler's truth about its literary worth. It is in the quality of featured creative writing that the publication's distinctive claim to excellence must lie. This time the copy looks good...
The day after Ernie's letter was given to the newspapers by Warden Frank Sain, Cook County's Assistant Public Defender asked Governor Dwight Green for a stay of execution so that a clemency petition could be prepared. A six weeks' stay was granted. Said Ernie: "If...
Petkoff's "treason" consisted of his outspoken stand against Bulgaria's Communist-dominated regime. When the U.S. protested against his sentence, both Bulgaria and Russia replied that it was "a pure Bulgarian home question." Nevertheless, Bulgaria, which had just concluded a peace treaty with the Allies, would like...
"Coldblooded murder" was Randolph Churchill's phrase for the execution of the top Nazis. Winston's far-flinging lecturer-son was now talking in Australia. "They were not hanged for starting the war but for losing it," he pursued. "If we tried the starters, why not put Stalin...