Word: hanged
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Hang Laval!" and "Laval to the Stake!" was the cry at Toulon two days later as a minority of 700 workers at the State gunpowder plant marched out singing the Internationale. They were joined by Riviera rabble which swept through the streets smashing windows, robbing shops, cutting electric wires and wrecking lampposts to make looting easier in the balmy darkness. As police and steel-helmeted Gardes Mobiles rushed in, they were sniped at from the housetops. Shrieking Communists ran about encouraging everyone within earshot to "Build barricades against the Cossacks...
...they earn, the seamen answered with a roar of "Oui!"', rushed back to their ships which sailed with all speed from Havre, while the French Cabinet announced Depression-busting decrees (see col. 3). General grumbling and unrest in French ports last week, with some rioting and shouts of "Hang Laval!" at Cherbourg, showed that the Premier was acting none too soon...
...black nostrils of France's earthy, peasant-born Premier snuffed trouble last week as Communists in French naval ports incited restive mobs with shouts of "Hang Laval...
...went on record against holding funerals on the Sabbath, thus falling in line with ministers, undertakers, hearse drivers, gravediggers. Said Cemetery Man Perkinson: "Most families desire privacy for the interment, but if a funeral is held on Sunday many visitors who have no personal interest leave their lots and hang around while the interment takes place, oftentimes making thoughtless remarks and generally taking away from the solemness of the interment. "The Police Department are in favor of this movement on account of traffic conditions. Funeral corteges on Sunday are many times as long as on weekdays, for many mourners...
...year-old husband whom she had always called by the pet name "Rats." So harshly did English public opinion crack down on Mistress Rattenbury that she soon committed suicide while 300,000 English signatures piled up on a mercy petition for young Stooge Stoner who had been sentenced to hang. An appeal by Stoner's lawyers was dismissed by the Lord Chief Justice as "a mere waste of time." The Lords of Appeal apparently felt that public opinion had gone hog-wild in sympathy for a youth who most certainly ought to hang...