Word: hangs
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...name of the late Calvin Coolidge Jr., a Mrs. A. Mildred Odalivitch, of Seattle, Washington, last week, begged Mrs. Coolidge to intercede for Mark Dowell, her son, who was sentenced to hang at San Quentin, Calif., for killing a San Francisco policeman. Mrs. Coolidge did what she could. She asked President Coolidge to act. He in turn asked Attorney-General Sargent to tell Mrs. Odalivitch what course to take. The Sargent advice was to appeal to a justice of the United States Supreme Court, to review the case. That had already been done unsuccessfully. Mark Dowell was hanged...
...includes in the distance the Golden Gate; near to the eye, Stanford University grounds; and, chiefly, a great redwood tree, solitary, centuries old, unique because no-other redwood ever grew so high at such an elevation. That tree is Stanford's emblem. Emblem and motto, joined on shield, hang on the wall by the desk on which the Hoover speech was cast and recast. The motto: "Die Luft der Freiheit weht." It is the only U. S. college motto in German just as Hoover, according to the tradition he favors, will be, if elected, the only U. S. President...
...campaign. Then turning rabidly on wetness, bulwark of the Democratic platform, he made straight the way for the 18th amendment. In 1912 he dominated yet another convention, in spite of furious yells: "I will give $25,000 to anyone who will kill him!", and "Why doesn't somebody hang him?" Bryan's part...
Neither choice was extraordinary. Victor was a good name for a child born in the Omaha of 1871. Greatness seemed to hang over the young city, chartered only 14 years and already connected by telegraph with Chicago, St. Louis, even with distant San Francisco. Three years earlier, Telegrapher Rosewater had watched the spectacular, noisy entry of the railroads, the great Rock Island, Burlington and North Western systems. Across the Missouri river lay Iowa and prosperous Council Bluffs. The birth of Victor and of the Omaha Bee coincided almost exactly with the birth of the meat-packing industry in the city...
Patriotically, they noted that in time of war the U. S. could squeeze its own dough, ooze it through its own long, skinny tubes, hang it up in its own drying-rooms, economically independent of macaroni-mad Italy...