Word: harold
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Hauptmann Case ended in Trenton, N. J. last week when Hauptmann paid with his life for the murder of Charles Augustus Lindbergh Jr. (see p. 18). When and how the Hoffman Case would end, no man knew last week, but the political life of New Jersey's Governor Harold Giles Hoffman was indisputably at stake...
...Harold ("Boake"') Carter was an obscure news commentator for Philadelphia's Station WCAU when he went to Hopewell, N. J. in March 1932 to broadcast descriptions of the frantic search for the Lindbergh baby's kidnapper. Four years later, with the kidnapper awaiting death at Trenton (see p. 20), Broadcaster Boake Carter and his brash news comments had grown to be something of a national institution...
Throughout the month preceding Bruno Richard Hauptmann's electrocution, Carter had relentlessly goaded New Jersey's Governor Harold Giles Hoffman and his henchmen for playing political football with the life of the condemned man. Last week Boake Carter summed up his opinion of such doings by declaring in his sinister British baritone that Hoffman & Co. had "turned Justice upside down and kicked...
Other features included an article on The New Yorker's Editor Harold Ross by The American Legion Monthly's Editor John T. Winterich, a We Rescue from Oblivion department spotlighting such has-beens as Clara Bow, William H. ("Alfalfa Bill") Murray, the Dolly Sisters. Throughout the book were scattered caricatures of such thoroughly-caricatured celebrities as Ernest Hemingway, William Randolph Hearst. Joe Louis. Impartial observers guessed that the winters in Mt. Morris, Ill. must indeed be tiresome...
Capitalist democracy as we know it is incompatible with the so called planned economy, in the opinion of Professor Harold J. Laski, of the London School of Economics...