Word: murders
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...namely, John White Webster 1811, Ewing Professor of Chemistry and Mineralogy in the University. This gentleman in his time was one of the most respected men of learning in New England. But this genial doctor, this cultured scientist, this popular society man came to an untimely end because he murdered a creditor who had hounded him too mercilessly. Whether Mr. Ellis considers him a failure because he committed the murder or because he was unable to hide his guilt, we cannot say; but it was probably for the first reason...
...same time it is noticeable that the Irish cause has not been very much raised in the public esteem by the events of the last few months. The stories of cattle-running outrage, and murder in Ireland may not all be true some of them, as the Irish leaders claim, may have been inspired by sources hostile to Ireland's freedom. But it is an ancient proverb that where there is such a prodigious cloud of smoke, there is sure to be a certain amount of fire. The reports from Ireland do not seem to indicate that the Irish people...
There is no question of the feeling of the people of the United States toward Mexico. Insult has followed insult, murder has followed murder until the title of "Civis Americans" within walking distance of the Rio Grande has almost been the equivalent of a death warrant. It seems ages since we commenced "watchfully waiting." If there were ever any virtue in that milk and water policy it has long since passed away...
...novel calculated to please these who delight in pursuing the how and wherefore of a baffling murder assisted by the keen-eyed sleuth...
...perfect right to agitate for Socialism, Communism, or anything else he pleases, if he proposes to reach his goal through lawfully prescribed legislative action. But when a few thousand radical extremists, most of them non-citizens, plot to overthrow the government and establish a dictatorship of the proletariat through murder and direct action, they will find against them 99 percent of the American people, solidified by a common will for law and order...