Word: grave
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...grave delegates to the League of Nations Assembly emerged from their hotels in Geneva last week and took their seats in the draughty Secretariat building for the League's twelfth annual session. Neatly printed on all of their desks was a list of 22 matters which they must consider in the next few weeks. These matters included...
...midnight fortnight ago a sedan coasted up to the cemetery of rustic Fairmount, N. J. A woman and two men got out. The men were carrying something that looked like a small coffin. Close to the mound of a recent grave, the men dug a hole in which they placed their burden. The woman dropped a handful of earth on the new burial, wept as the men filled the hole. The three departed in the sedan...
...Olga Plater, and her husband, Albert Browel Plater (who in 1917 had been ac cused of impersonating a Russian count, a U. S. Army captain), lived in a $50,000 home near Detroit. Last week the American Friendship Society was involved in a sordid, hideous mess. In a shallow grave beside a garage in Clarksburg, W. Va., were found the bodies of two women and three children. In Clarksburg jail cowered a fat, beady-eyed, flabby little man, battered and bruised into a confession of his sadism. Police in many States followed clues to other crimes, other murders, all linked...
That afternoon Judge Barnhill, his pale face grave as the Law, his voice almost a whisper, his hands trembling, read his penalties. Col. Lea's wife gripped her husband's hand so tightly that her knuckles were white. Their daughter, Mary Louise, 7, who had spent the weeks romping through the court room, sat quietly next to him, looking scared. For Col. Lea the Judge ordered imprisonment for from six to ten years. The Colonel paled, then flushed, but his lips were motionless. His wife nearly sobbed. When Luke Lea Jr. heard he had been fined...
...this large Philip Franklin exploded. He wrote a long letter of protest to the Shipping Board. It was not the first time, he declared, that I. M. M. had suffered grave injustice at the hands of the Government. Criticism of I. M. M. for owning foreign flag tonnage was unjustified; the company was entirely U. S.-controlled, anxious to spend more money to develop North Atlantic trade. Then Mr. Franklin revealed an astonishing fact. During the Wilson administration, he declared, his company received from a British syndicate an offer of $130,000,000 for I. M. M.'s foreign...