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Last time Winnie Ruth Judd went to Los Angeles she traveled with two trunks and a valise-in them the dismembered bodies of two women friends. Last week she traveled light...
...Greene Elliott, 65, for 13 years official executioner for New York, New Jersey, Pennsylvania, Connecticut, Vermont, Massachusetts; of coronary embolism; in Richmond Hill, N. Y. Named for a Methodist minister who opposed capital punishment, tall, grey Robert Elliott electrocuted 400 persons, five of them women. Among them: Ruth Snyder & Judd Gray, Two-Gun Crowley, Sacco & Vanzetti, Bruno Richard Hauptmann. Successor to his $150-a-night job: Joseph Francel, 42, American Legionnaire, garageman and electrician, who has already officiated once, when Robert Elliott was confined to his bed last summer...
...Walter Judd, medical missionary in China, told the House Foreign Affairs Committee that the adoption of Senator Pittman's plan would be disastrous to China. Said he: "Now we are furnishing Japan 50% of its war materials. One-third of the scrap iron that is being hurled upon civilian populations comes from the United States. Trucks, the most decisive single factor in Japanese advances, are supplied...
With a staff including such top-rank educators as Princeton's President Harold Willis Dodds and University of Chicago's Professor Charles Hubbard Judd, Dr. Gulick probed and tested schools throughout the State (but paid little attention to self-sufficient New York City), interviewed 45,900 parents, educators, employers, labor leaders, taxpayers, boys & girls in and out of school. Result was an eleven-volume report...
...General's Lady, a sort of colonial version of the Judd Gray-Ruth Snyder case, tells the story of a beautiful, vainglorious Tory adulteress, Morganna Bale, wife of a middleaged, good-natured Continental general. In the last year of the Revolution, when the story begins, Morganna acquires two worshipful protégés, a pretty farm girl and a handsome British deserter. When she falls in love with the deserter, he takes fright at her reckless passion, tries to escape. Promptly retrieved, he resists no further. Two months later, the war ended, he is so hypnotized that...