Word: hauptmanns
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Governor and newshawk thereupon made their way out of the dining room together discussing the Hauptmann trial. They got no farther than the steps leading down into the lounge when Harold Hoffman was heard to say, "You can't call me yellow and get away with it!" The 210-lb. Governor then swung on 130-lb. Newshawk Wedemar, who slumped to the floor. Mr. Hoffman returned to his dinner...
...Ambassador to France. Into the fight at the last minute had jumped onetime Congressman Franklin W. Fort, who emerged from political retirement to offer himself as a substitute for Governor Hoffman on the Landon slate. Mr. Fort's sole issue: the Governor's handling of the Hauptmann case (TIME, April 13). Said Republican Fort of Republican Hoffman: "No man has done more in my memory to attempt to break down the fundamental American respect for the power and dignity of our courts of justice...
...would like to congratulate TIME on the splendid manner in which it handled the story of the execution of Bruno Hauptmann [TIME, April 13]. It was refreshing to see that at least one periodical had the good taste to give the mere facts and leave out the superfluous details which cater to the sordid imagination of a morbid public...
...Yale Post Commander Theodore Woolsey, some 300 yets marched on the Political Union House, which was in the midst of a debate on the Hauptmann trial, and demanded that the Union pass the bonus payable...
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...