Word: executioners
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Last week TIME Correspondent John Scott dropped in for a visit, talked long & earnestly with his hosts, polled their opinions .on Germany's future. Unanimously the colonists voted for execution of leading Nazis. Most of them demanded reparations. But a majority voted against dismemberment of German territory, destruction of...
Last week Governor Dewey had to set a new date (the fourth) for the execution of Lepke. The occasion reminded him once again, and he duly reminded reporters, of "the failure of the President of the United States to grant the customary conditional pardon."
I would like to second the nomination of Douglas MacArthur for Man of the Year. . . . He has done a magnificent job in the Southwest Pacific, and the careful planning and precise execution of the Salamaua-Lae-Finschhaven campaign give a hint of what he could do if he had larger...
When Governor Dewey had to postpone the Lepke execution for the third time, his temper reached a shrewdly timed boiling point. In a statement that landed Lepke in big-time politics, the Governor wrote: "I have twice respited the executions of Capone and Weiss because I will not consider their...
In 15 years of journalism, 100 days awaiting execution in a Franco prison, six years of watching prewar Leftism crumble under the shock of totalitarian war, Hungarian-born Author Arthur Koestler (Darkness at Noon) has learned to lift himself above the battle. Last week in the New York Times, he...