Word: murders
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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John Thurmond became Tillman's attorney and boss of Edgefield County. One day, when a drummer for a drug company used "hot language" about John being a Tillmanite and threatened John with a knife, John shot him dead. The jury's verdict: not guilty of murder...
Rope. Alfred Hitchcock's blood-freezer about two bright young men who murder for the fun of it, with John Dall, Farley Granger and James Stewart (TIME, Sept...
...England history. They built one of the great fortunes of post-Revolutionary days, went cruising to the Mediterranean in a fabulous pleasure boat named Cleopatra's Barge, and fervently supported Thomas Jefferson. One Crowninshield hanged himself on the eve of his trial in a sensational murder case. Another left an account of his travels (Journal of Captain John Crowninshield at Calcutta, 1797-1798, When Master of the Ship Belisarius*) that is far better than most fiction...
...religion must criss-cross over morality, State and Church both abhor and forbid murder, bigamy, and swindling; this is a natural, not a sinister, connection...
Through the aid of the Newsmens' Commission to Investigate the Murder of George Polk, William Polk has already raised $1,500 in cash and $6,000 in pledges of the $10,000 necessary to send himself and two others to Greece for a six-week investigation of the killing...