Word: maining
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Night before the execution, Owensboro was host to the greatest crowd in its history. Cars poured in from neighboring counties, Illinois, Indiana, Missouri. Every bar was packed to the doors. Down the main street tipsy merrymakers rollicked all night. "Hanging parties" were held in many a home. Sheriff Thompson's 17-year-old daughter sneaked out against her mother's orders to attend one. As before the execution of Rapist De Boe, one motorist was in such a hurry to get to the scene that he cracked up, killed himself...
...mind sending a few small samples of the Jubilee over to Seattle now and then. But they cannot expect us to send them one of the main features...
...pains to keep repeating that he never abdicated, was at Dellach in Austria for the mournful second anniversary last week of the death of his youngest son, Gonzalo, in a motor accident. Said he: "I am in deepest mourning over the events in Spain." Savage Sieges. Main fighting of the week was a series of attacks by General Mola in efforts to dislodge Government forces from Irun and San Sebastian, and the grim advance toward Madrid of Generalissimo Franco's columns of Spanish Foreign Legionnaires and Moors, but the most desperate and cruel conflicts were at Badajoz, besieged...
...Schacht trick has been a feat of State bookkeeping, does not involve the printing of marks of different kinds. In the main, Dr. Schacht's procedure has been simply to hold or "block" in Germany payments owed to a foreigner and refuse to transfer them to him abroad. The foreigner was told that he could use these "blocked marks" to buy goods in Germany or could sell them to someone else in his own country who wished to do so. Obviously the foreign creditor could sell his blocked marks only at a discount and the effect of this...
Though the Press reported that "Diary-burning was now Hollywood's main concern," Miss Astor's colleagues displayed monumental discretion when asked to comment on her case. Said William Powell: "Excuse me!" Jack Oakie: "It's a nice day." Claudette Colbert: "Uh-huh . . . that's bad." Miss Astor's one stanch friend was Ruth Chatterton, also in Dodsworth. Miss Chatterton attended most sessions of the trial, told the Press: "I admire Miss Astor very much for her courage...