Word: murderings
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Thus did President Roosevelt, shocked and grieved by the death list of Army pilots and hounded by Republican Congressmen charging "legalized murder," retrace one step on his politically unfortunate course on the airmail situation. General Foulois answered by suspending all Army mail service for a few days while he and his aides conferred with Post Office officials on elimination of routes and schedules. Tentatively they planned to fly about 40% of the mileage formerly covered by private operators. A House Committee announced it would find out what, if anything, was wrong with the Air Corps' planes. While the President...
...shock traditional minds. "A pretty Frenchwoman is worth mention; I never saw more than three that I can remember." Disbelievers in capital punishment will applaud his shrewdness: "When kidnapping was made a capital crime, probably not a single legislator realized that he was voting to put a premium on murder, and to provide a direct encouragement to lynching." A life- long believer in the late Henry George's single tax, he has "never propagandized for it, because our people would not know what to do with it if they...
...bobbin-boy in a New Bedford, Mass. mill. When he sold his first short story he took up writing as a profession. After two years of free-lancing in Europe he reported the New Bedford mill strike (1928) for the Communist New Masses, next year covered the murder trial of 16 Gastonia strikers. Not a baptized Communist, 37-year-old Author Rollins keeps bachelor quarters in Manhattan. Other books: Midnight Treasure, The Obelisk...
...drama depicts the devastating effects of a murder on the conscience of a sensitive and refined woman, although the murder was committed to save her home. Besides this emotional side of the play there is much action, including a murder committed behind the wings of a theatre where the star of a musical revue is shot down during a rehearsal...
...head. Villain Drury, not content with hurting Bolly's feelings by letting him see his horns, picked a fight, nearly killed him. When Slaughter found out what had happened he did the same to Drury. Bolly drowned his shame in the river, and Drury was arrested for murder. To make a clean slate, Slaughter took the deacon's wife, Lulu left town with the conductor...