Word: murders
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Great American Novel. Another history of the adventures and misadventures of an American family from 1832, when New York was in the grip of the black cholera, to times fairly contemporaneous. But the RoBards had even more than the usual fictional American family's share of trouble. Jealousy, murder, seductions, secret marriages?they took a fling at them all, but always managed to keep up appearances pretty well, on the whole. There is much interesting information on the growth and development of New York City and its water-system?a highly melodramatic plot to sugar-coat the pill?...
...Pennsylvania, an anti-lynching bill (much resembling the federal Dyer bill, which was talked to death in the last Congress) was passed by the Legislature and signed by Governor Pinchot. It makes lynching and kidnapping which results in death, murder; a person who tries to take a prisoner from an officer shall be fined not less than $10,000 and imprisoned not more than ten years; a county in which a lynching occurs shall be fined $10,000; and other drastic provisions design to allow no loophole of escape to participants in a lynching...
Brigands who prefer murder...
...Third Internationale at Moscow issued an appeal to the workmen of the world in connection with the murder of Vorovsky at Lausanne : " This bloody challenge must not be left unanswered...
...RETURN OF FRANK CLAMART ? Henry C. Rowland ? Harper ($1.90). 'Frank Clamart's visiting card should read, "Virtuous Assas-sinations?Singly or by the Dozens ?No Reduction Made for Quantity. " A master-criminal, reformed and now crusading against an international dope ring and murder syndicate, he extinguishes evildoers with nonchalance and celerity. His friend, Shane Emmet, a cartoonist with a camera-eye, assists his adventurous labor with blackjack, revolver and sketchbook, and strings along two high-speed love affairs the interim. When the plot is finally unsnarled, scoundrelly corpses fairly heap the floor, and Emmet, strangely enough, receives...