Word: murders
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Then 400 natives were found who would vote for the proper candidate. Notice was given of opening the polls five minutes beforehand. The 400 voters were assembled in a line and when they had voted . . . polls were closed." Hot-collared Novelist Sinclair Lewis, charging General Butler with "conspiracy to murder the men unjustly declared bandits," wrote a loud letter to Senator Borah of the Foreign Relations Committee, demanding an inquiry. General Butler blandly replied to Novelist Lewis that he had told the committee all that "and a great deal more...
SUBWAY EXPRESS?Murder in the rush hour...
...Mexican officials including Manuel C. Tellez, Mexican Ambassador to Washington, Pascual Ortiz Rubio, Mexico's President-elect. An unexpected damper to the official welcome was the announced intention of one John A. Vails, District Attorney of Laredo, Tex., to arrest Señor Calles for the murder seven years ago of two Mexican officers whose bodies, handcuffed together, were found floating in the Rio Grande. Wires from the State Department hastily announced that ex-President Calles had a U. S. diplomatic passport, could claim immunity. In Laredo, District Attorney Vails was unappeased...
Headquarters. William Farnum, whose pompadour, jaw and chest expansion were once what all the young ladies of the time covertly admired, is currently to be seen on Broadway, mature, heavy, but still indubitably heroic. As a police inspector he is forced to inquire into the double murder of his own wife and her paramour. For a while suspicion falls on Mr. Farnum's daughter (by an earlier marriage), but this pretty thing is no more a murderess than she seems. When the case has been solved, you are left with two striking thoughts: 1) A convenient and unusual thing...
SUBWAY EXPRESS-Murder in the rush hour...