Word: executioner
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Under arrest and liable to prompt liquidation were Estonia's onetime President Konstantin Päts, Latvia's onetime President Karlis Ulmanis and Foreign Minister Vilhelms Hunters, Lithuania's onetime Foreign Minister Juozas Urbsys. Special justice, including immediate confiscation of property and execution within 24 hours if...
But the prospect this week was that hearings on Mr. Roosevelt's priced package would be over in a fortnight or so. Unless the profits tax rates are upped, the three proposals should then go through intact under the leadership of Congressional Tax Boss Pat Harrison, who is working...
The Willkie reaction to Franklin Roosevelt's dark and lofty acceptance of Nomination III (see p. 9) was on a higher plane. Candidate Willkie grinned down at 400 earthy cattlemen, sheep raisers, herders and employes in the Denver stockyards, said: "I shall make no pretense of noble motives. ... I...
Correspondents at a press conference early last week thought they heard Mr. Roosevelt say that Congress could well finish its task within the fortnight, leave the details of execution to him. Majority Leaders Alben Barkley in the Senate, Sam Rayburn in the House acted as if that was the idea...
Well the French knew that it is no part of German strategy or character to lose momentum. As the mass bombing of France began this week, it was recognized as execution of the Douhet theory's most frightful phase: to cripple an enemy's factories, transportation, communication, and...