Word: hauptmanns
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...question, the returns from his own class, found that his students were 66% right on foreign news and 62.8% on national affairs, 46% on science, but only 29% on music & art, 32% on books. Ninety-nine percent knew what country has a Soviet form of government, what Bruno Richard Hauptmann was tried for. Almost as many could tell what the Townsend Plan is about. Scarcely any, on the other hand, could pick the reason for unusual interest in last summer's Salzburg Music Festival (TIME, Sept. 3), or name the city which was offered...
...jury which convicted Bruno Richard Hauptmann, Defense Counsel Edward J. Reilly said in Brooklyn: "One look at that jury was enough. . . . One of the women jurors had a tremendous appetite and ate tremendous meals. How in God's name could she return to the jury box after lunch without being dull? We would have had no more chance if we had brought John the Baptist there as a defense witness...
First issue of Boys' & Girls' Newspaper carried a report of the Hauptmann verdict, with heavy emphasis on the science of detection. Excerpt: "The testimony which did most to convict Hauptmann was given by Arthur Koehler . . . a xylotomist. The title is a combination of two Greek words and means a wood expert." There were reports, painstakingly simple, of the Italo-Abyssinian dispute, wreck of the Macon, and even an attempt at explaining the Supreme Court's gold decisions. There were pages on sport, entertainment, books, puzzles, handicraft, housekeeping, an adventure column by Lowell Thomas, many a comic strip...
...Toledo the Blade shrieked "extras" that Hauptmann was sentenced to life imprisonment...
...more than a year. Only three weeks ago the Post had jeered at the Herald for publishing a vivid "eyewitness" description of an execution two hours before the condemned men went to the chair. Hence Editor Patterson gladly paid $20 for the copy of the Post with the headline: HAUPTMANN GUILTY BUT ESCAPES DEATH. Next day the Herald appeared with a stinging "open letter" from "Cissy" Patterson. Caption: "You Asked For It-Eugene." C. The St. Louis Globe-Democrat's behavior was most extraordinary. Its extra carried two stories, one giving the penalty as life imprisonment, the other...