Word: oiling
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...last week on a plump and pretty 31-year-old Bavarian blonde named Mrs. Anna Marie Filser Hahn. Crime of which a Cincinnati jury of 11 women and one man found Mrs. Hahn guilty was poisoning a 78-year-old German-American named Jacob Wagner with arsenic and croton oil...
...just visited in the company of an aging but adventurous cobbler named George Obendoerfer, notified them of the loss of $305 worth of diamond rings. After tracing the theft to Mrs. Hahn, police found that Cobbler Obendoerfer had died the day after his escapade, poisoned by arsenic and croton oil. Further researches into Mrs. Hahn's career, which promptly took the form of exhuming corpses, suggested a curiously Teutonic fixity of purpose. Each corpse was that of an elderly, Cincinnati German-American for whom Mrs. Hahn's fatal fascination had consisted of her skill at German cooking. Each...
...trial developed that administering arsenic and croton oil to old men was by no means the defendant's only foible. To establish the sincerity of her denial of this vice, defense attorneys shrewdly made a point of admitting their client's guilt of thefts, adultery and forgery. Motive for Mrs. Hahn's dealings with her elderly Cincinnati compatriots was established as mere robbery. Motive for the robberies was even more innocent - her addiction to gambling, preferably on horseraces. Of the $50,000 acquired from her old friends in the last eight years, Mrs. Hahn last week...
Brushing aside an international agreement and overruling a decision of the Mexican Supreme Court rendered year ago, President Lazaro Cardenas last week nationalized by decree 2,000,000 acres of oil lands held largely by foreign concerns in the States of Tabasco, Campeche, Chiapas. A sweeping decree, employing Article XXVII of the Constitution, which makes all subsoil wealth the property of the Government, turned over to the National Petroleum Administration some 100,000 acres subleased by Standard Oil Co. of California, 250,000 acres leased by the Richmond Petroleum Co. of Mexico, Standard Oil Co. of California subsidiary...
...been by turns editor of Humorist "Bill" Nye's Laramie Boomerang, secretary (1923) to Wyoming's Democratic Governor William Bradford Ross, secretary (1924) to the late U. S. Senator John B. Kendrick. From his political connections sprouted his close friendship with Wyoming's present rulers, oil-rich Governor Leslie Andrew Miller and Senator Joseph Christopher O'Mahoney. These three became Wyoming's famed political steam roller...