Word: finality
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Charles Birger, lean gang chieftain of Williamson county, in which lies bloody Herrin, had paid the two young men $50 apiece to kill Mayor Adams. His conviction for first degree murder was regarded as having finally put an end to Herrin atrocities. Last week final appeals failed. He was to be hanged by the neck on Friday, April 13, unless Governor Len Small, famed pardoner, intervened...
Burnside, McClellan's successor, stupidly massed an attack on Fredericksburg and was decisively beaten. At Chancellorsville, "esteemed among foreign critics the most brilliant action of the century," Lee, outmanoeuvered for once, literally led his men, who worshipped him, to defeat a force twice their size. But his final stab failed when a subordinate erred at Gettysburg...
...Chauncey Mitchell Depew Jr.). He remained board chairman of the New York Central up to his death. A few hours after he died, steelworkers swung the final girder into place atop the pinnacle of his last project, the 36-story New York Central Building behind the Grand Central station, dominating famed Park Avenue...
...remain in effect (TiitfE, March 19). The hint thus given that the Plan was cracking caused the price of rubber to bound down and brought a heavy slump in the shares of British rubber companies. Therefore the pronouncement of Prime Minister Baldwin, last week, was expected, and merely served final notice that his committee has decided that the Stevenson Plan is unworkable and must be scrapped...
...final news that Wu Pei-fu had actually become a bonze brought forth in the Peking press a grim description of his initiation: 1) The hour chosen was midnight, at which time the whole assembly of the monastery knelt in its Temple; 2) The crux of the ceremony was to burn deep into the shaved head of Wu Pei-fu nine brands, each the width of a man's thumb, and serving to remind him of his nine vows as a Buddhist priest; 3) The branding was made endurable by covering his scalp (except on the spots...