Word: post
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...slaying Brazil's famed, long-hunted bandit, Lampeão, "the Lamp Post" (TIME, Aug. 8), the police of Alagoas State last week received: 1) $5,000; 2) six freshly hacked human heads...
...reward for the most recent killing of the Lamp Post, and its payment was proof enough to skeptical Brazilians that this time the Government believed him dead. The six heads were the grisly gift from the remaining members of the Lamp Post's gang, and belonged to inhabitants of a remote interior settlement who were massacred and decapitated in retaliation for the Lamp Post's death. One head was that of the aged grandfather of an Alagoas police lieutenant who led the attack on the bandit chief...
Last week Alagoas' unfortunate police received word that the surviving bandits would burn every village in the countryside, massacre the inhabitants, send their heads to headquarters. The message came as a shock, for it was sent by "Corisco," one of the Lamp Post's lieutenants, whom the Government has also killed several times...
...golf courses (see p. 20). The U. S. Golf Association was acutely reminded of this fact last June when two spectators were killed and Golfer Horton Smith was grazed by lightning in the Kansas City Open.* Last week the U. S. G. A. advised its member clubs to post on their bulletin boards the following thunderstorm...
...city desks cut up. The Post ran an eight-column head: NAGIRROC YAW GNORW OT LIAH. The Journal and American (Hearst) ran a banner head, WELCOME TO YOU O'CORRIGAN in Gaelic, later got a better idea, printed it in green. The Sun, which had previously used Corrigan's unorthodox navigation as a stick to beat the New Deal, announced: PARADE GOES RIGHT WAY. In various cities of the U. S., papers printed their front pages in green. The Los Angeles Herald and Express used the Post's idea, with the added note: "If You Haven...