Word: murderings
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...beer bottle flying by night through the window of a bawdy house, a volley of answering pistol shots flying out of the house, were the projectiles, fired last February, which last fortnight blew the lid off the city government of Champaign, Ill. Indicted for the murder of Sophomore William Spurrier of the University of Illinois was Mrs. Margaret Strothers, Negro proprietress of the bawdy house. Indicted for intentional dereliction of duty in not suppressing vice were Champaign's Mayor James D. Flynn, Chief of Police Roy Argo, State's Attorney Fred B. Hamill, former Sheriff Clarence W. Roth...
...Bible, Samson was brought low by one wily woman. It took 458 women to undo mighty Sampson Nkbinde of Verulam, South Africa. Last week, in the biggest trial in South Africa's history, all 458 were tried for murder...
...Author Leighton likes Birmingham, Ala. least of his five cities. City of unkept promise, he calls it, with vast natural resources and the lowest per capita public expenditure of any big U. S. city-near the bottom in appropriations for education and public health, near the top in its murder rate. Author Leighton's explanation of its unkept promise: racial conflict, absentee ownership...
CHILDREN OF GUERNICA - Hermann Kesten-Alliance ($2.50). On April 26, 1937, a row comes to a head in the large Espinosa family of Guernica, Spain; Uncle Pablo, the black sheep, mocks his kindly brother for his liberalism in the civil war; son and daughter are innocently involved in the murder of an anarchist leader; Father Espinosa cannot sell his chemist's shop and escape to France. German bombers sailing overhead end the family row and the Basque city of Guernica at the same time. Young Carlos escapes to Paris where he tells his powerful, grim story to German refugee...
...nosed Southern girl who is such a relief after traditional Southern belles that she is almost an achievement in herself. Noon Wine is a deceptively artless picture of life on a South Texas farm, written with such quiet good nature that, when it suddenly turns into a tale of murder and suicide, the transition is almost as shocking as the events themselves. Pale Horse, Pale Rider, the title story, brings Miranda back, separated from her husband, working on a newspaper during the War, learning that Wartime love affairs have less chance of survival than influenza victims...