Word: murderers
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...South and slavery. The Senator called the Chief Justice a crook and miserable wretch, so Terry stepped down from the bench to fight a duel. Jittery Broderick put his bullet in the ground; Terry put his through Broderick's breast. A jury acquitted him of murder, but he was still struggling to rebuild his Stockton law practice when the Civil War broke out. Wounded at Chickamauga, Terry was a Confederate brigadier before the war ended. Afterward he tried sheep and cotton in Mexico, then went back to Stockton for a third...
...first effort to establish the position of poetry on the contemporary stage, the newly formed Poets Theatre, headed by William B. Bersscubrugge '37, will produce "Murder in the Cathedral" March 19 and 20 in the courtyard of the Fogg Art Museum...
...cannon balls, the South Carolina House oi Representatives passed a resolution calling upon South Carolina's national Senators and Representatives to demand that the Post Office Department stop the memoria issue because the military career of General Sherman "is a history of rapine, carnage, destruction and murder waged principally against defenseless women and little children. . . ." At Atlanta, the Georgia Senate considered a similar resolution while the House argued a proposal to approve the stamp only if the Government at this late date admit and pay for the damage Sherman's army did in Georgia...
...tell them what had been what during the Red rule of this great Spanish port, "The Queen City of Andalusia. Said Mrs. Violet Montagu Owen, English keeper of a small beach hotel: "I have seen men cut down on the beach outside my house. I have seen people murder each other in the streets over a piece of bread. Pistol brigades roamed the street looking for 'traitors.' They shot suspect on sight...
Free again and having his day in court, Plaintiff Parker began to develop a line of legal reasoning in the libel case which was exquisitely embarrassing to the Tribune. According to Parker, the conviction of Leo Brothers for the murder of the Tribune's crook-reporter Jake Lingle (who saved up a fortune of $150,000 on a news-hawk's pay) was a frame-up. True it was that a member of the Tribune's law firm was made a special assistant state's attorney to help build the case against Brothers-and this appointment...