Word: hanged
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...avoid it. He asked the father of the girl to write a note to the mob. Clyde Collins ''consented with reluctance to let the law take its course,'' asked the mob to disperse. Short time later the Negroes were convicted, sentenced to hang...
...there have been no hitches in their programme, because for a certain time people will live on promises and expectations. But the golden vistas held out by the Nazis that now hang in front of the German people with shimmering magnificence will certainly be dissipated by the passage of time and the necessary and inevitable failure of Hitler to make them into realities. I think that once faith in the success and truthfulness of the Nazi programme is undermined the Propaganda Ministry will function with just about as much force as it does in, say, France. There is no evidence...
...Jewess named Esther. Ignorant of his queen's race, Ahasuerus made a favorite of her cousin Mordecai, who had saved the king's life. This was annoying to Haman the Prime Minister, a haughty anti-Semite. Haman had a gallows built 50 cubits high on which to hang Mordecai. He also got Ahasuerus to agree to exterminate "a certain people," casting lots (Purim) to decide when it should be done. But Esther heard of the plot and on the 14th day of the Month Adar, 473 B.C. persuaded Ahasuerus to save the Jews. "So they hanged Haman...
...stock and the stockholders' sanction. Temporary loans were arranged to tide over the period between the maturity of old bonds and the actual sale of new. President Williamson's major problem of 1934 has been solved but heavy over his head still hang bank loans and RFC advances footing up to a total...
...galleries. For more than a decade he has been giving shows, winning medals, selling pictures to museums. In 1931 the Whitney Museum gave him its official accolade by publishing a monograph on his work. In Philadelphia last week the Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts was pleased to hang some of his canvases in its 129th annual show. In the Manhattan show were 22 more Brook landscapes, figures, portraits...