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Word: rapes (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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Marching to the home of his estranged wife, Policeman Sullivan drew his service revolver, shot her father and mother dead. Reloading, he proceeded three blocks to the home of the girl he was accused of raping, killed her mother and brother. Then he rejoined Constable Gallagher, downed a drink with him, asked to be taken to the home of the social worker who had brought the rape charge against him. When she answered the door, he fired a fifth fatal shot, handed his gun to Gallagher. When Gallagher and Sullivan finally reached their destination, police jailed the accommodating constable...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: Pennsylvania Escapes | 12/28/1936 | See Source »

...achieve a lasting peace, the curbing of munitions makers and limitation of capital investments in foreign enterprises must be accomplished. If Europe had seen fit to intervene by force in Italy's rape of Ethiopia, the United States might easily have been involved in the horrors of continual bloodshed, through the cries for protection from large financial companies, whose foreign investments were being threatened...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: FOR PEACE | 12/5/1936 | See Source »

...later years he worked on seven or eight pictures at once, impatiently used his finger tips more than his brushes in spreading paint. For grandiloquent allegory Education of Cupid has few equals in the U. S., perhaps only Venus and the Lute Player, now in the Metropolitan, The Rape of Europa, bought years ago by Boston's canny Mrs. Jack Gardner, and Judith with the Head of Holofernes at the Detroit Institute of Arts...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: Cupid for Chicago | 11/9/1936 | See Source »

Sentenced. Thomas Alton Tully, 25, son of hard-boiled Hobo Novelist Jim Tully; to a 25-year prison term; for rape; in Los Angeles...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones, Oct. 5, 1936 | 10/5/1936 | See Source »

...Masses reporter, who published his story under the pseudonym of "Porter Niles," wrote that he gained ready admittance to Mr. True's office by saying he came from Republican Party headquarters. Besides the imminence of the September pogrom, he learned from True that "Jews pay Negroes to rape white girls; Jews caused the World War and the Depression; Franklin Roosevelt is really named Rosenfeld and Jew Rosenfeld is insane; the Jews have been "plotting the destruction of Christian civilization for 500 years...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Press: Jew Shoot | 8/24/1936 | See Source »

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