Word: murders
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Wobblies were on the march to keep a legend of martyrdom alive. That legend is woven around Joe Hill, a tough Wobbly organizer and songwriter ("You'll get pie in the sky when you die") who was put to death (by a firing squad) for murder in Utah in 1915. Wobblies charge that he was framed...
...stood accused of the mass murder of more than a million people-people deemed "racially undesirable" by Adolf Hitler. This week, at Nürnberg's Palace of Justice, Presiding Judge Michael A. Musmanno of Pittsburgh handed down their sentences. For Major General Otto Ohlendorf and Brigadier General Erich Naumann and twelve other 55 (Elite Guard) officers: death by hanging. For Brigadier General Heinz Jost and Lieut. Colonel Gustav Nosske: life imprisonment. For Brigadier Generals Erwin Schulz and Franz Six, and an SS major: 20 years. Two field grade officers were sentenced to ten-year terms and the only...
...early drypoints had described the hollow shell of a vanished culture, and done it literally. "The important things today," he says, "are first the chaos, murder, rape and war in the world; and second, the spirit of scientific inquiry, the interest in atoms and cellular growth." He thinks his new paintings reflect a little of the science, if not of the chaos...
...clerk on the state legislature's judiciary committee. In 1938 he paid a tragic return visit to his home town. His father, who had turned into a miserly hermit with a reputation for ruthless mortgage foreclosures, had been bludgeoned to death with a length of gaspipe. The murder is still unsolved...
...gambling graft; jailed the Alameda mayor, city manager, and councilmen for bribery and theft of public funds; became the recognized legislative spokesman for the state's 58 district attorneys. None of his convictions was ever reversed after appeal to higher courts. His most famous case: the 1936 dockside murder of the nonunion chief engineer of the freighter Point Lobos, for which three union officials and one fingerman were convicted. The trial was conducted amid cries of "frame-up" from labor, and followed by an admission that one juror had lent $24,000 to a deputy district attorney...