Word: hang
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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THEY CAN'T HANG ME-James Ronald -Crime Club ($2). Ex-newspaper publisher, shut up in an asylum for 18 years as a homicidal maniac, escapes with the intention of murdering the men who had him locked up. Clever plot, spiced with humor...
...could not," said Lord Baldwin, and all present braced themselves for the announcement. The Earl then capped his climax: "I am going to go through my papers for the last 18 years. Those papers are reposing in a tin box, and if there is anything in them which will hang anybody then I will destroy them. ... It will keep me quiet for three months...
...rival them with a gaudy, towering architectural monstrosity. An undertaker who owned a small house in the same block refused to sell it; Crocker built a spite fence 40 feet high, completely enclosing his neighbor's home. Dennis Kearney led a mob to tea down the fence and hang Crocker from the flagpole atop his 76-foot tower, but the mob decided to burn Chinese laundries and beat up laundrymen instead...
...150th anniversary of the establishment of American civil government in the Northwest Territory at Marietta. Ohio, offered him an occasion, reeking with history, to hang a large historical backdrop behind the little political maneuvers of this trip. He did so with one of his analogies between the old frontier of ''new land, new game, new opportunity" and the F. D. R. frontier of social and economic security. Said...
...since 1830, before Michigan became a State, had anyone been executed in Michigan.† Governor Frank Murphy thought trying to preserve that tradition would be a popular gesture. With Killer Chebatoris scheduled to hang at the Federal Detention Farm in Milan, Mich, last week. Governor Murphy appealed to President Roosevelt to have Chebatoris hanged in some other State...