Word: fatales
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Sitting at the very desk where he measured the fatal Sacco-Vanzetti bullets, with instruments accurate up to one ten-thousandth of an inch, Dr. Magrath affirmed the statement that no innocent person in his opinion, has ever been executed in Massachusetts for a crime he did not commit. The notorious "Bullet Number 3", responsible for the death of Parmenter, in the Sacco-Vanzetti case, was found to be grooved from a pit in the gun barrel, probably caused by rust. Such a pit was found in the gun of Sacco, and test slugs fired from it by investigators, here...
...Hitler's henchmen were the candidate, a defeat would not be fatal to the Nazi party. But with the leader himself standing for election, a failure at the polls could ruin the prestige of Hitler and dissolve his following into its original elements. The Nationalists may withdraw under their leader Hugenberg, and it is conceivable that many of the Nazis will return to their old loves, the Communist and Socialist parties...
...victory not prove equally fatal to Hitler? He has as yet no such strong support as Mussolini won. He has been troubled with revolts in his ranks, notably that of Dr. Goebbels, who published his own political program and was cast into outer darkness. His bigoted platform, which calls for expulsion of the Jews, revenge on France, territorial acquisition in Russia, and suppression of Socialism, will be put into effect only by a strong dictatorship. A dictatorship, with the militant opposition certain in Germany, spells revolution. But if Hitler pursues a conservative policy his shaky party may dissolve...
Collision is adapted from the German by John Anderson, New York Journal theatre critic who revised The Fatal Alibi. His confreres did not fail to flay his present flimsy farce, observing that Critic Anderson would have done likewise...
...Fatal Alibi. Two murder plays within a week (see above), both of which are commendable, is by way of being news on Broadway. The Fatal Alibi, from Agatha Christie's Murder of Roger Ackroyd, which ends with the narrator's last-chapter confession, is not as funny as Monkey, but more logical. Engaged to solve this crime is Actor Charles Laughton, who made this season's grim Payment Deferred almost too real. This time Mr. Laughton is cast as the famed French operative Hercule Poirot. His accent is good, his mumming of characteristic meticulousness. Either Author Christie or Reviser John...