Word: soled
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Hauptmann's death sentence, Governor Hoffman, a Republican, secretly visited the condemned man's cell, talked with him for more than an hour. Shortly thereafter the squat, hard-driving Governor sensationally re-opened the quiescent Hauptmann Case by publicly expressing doubt of the German carpenter's sole guilt, announcing that he had launched an independent investigation of the crime under New Jersey's famed small-town detective, Ellis Parker. The Governor charged State Police Superintendent H. Norman Schwarzkopf, a non-Hoffman Republican holdover, with having bungled the original investigation. He accused Attorney General David T. Wilentz...
...Sole news of the President which reached the waiting world were the brief bulletins flashed to shore, first by the destroyers Monaghan and Dale acting as convoys, later by the Potomac. Sole piscatorial feat was credited to "Uncle Fred." Sum total of the world's knowledge of Franklin Roosevelt...
...Constitution gives the House of Representatives sole power to originate bills raising revenue. House rules give the sole power to prepare tax bills to the Ways & Means Committee. Last week, therefore, the full Ways & Means Committee sat down to do its constitutional duty. But neither buzzard-bald Chairman Robert L. Doughton nor any of his colleagues were fooled by these solemn delegations of power. They knew that whatever bill they recommended and the House passed would, as always, be rewritten by a captious Senate. This relieved North Carolina's Doughton of much responsibility, more brain work. His chief...
...three others had raided a native compound for women. As they chained the squat, tattooed booty, the clubhouse of Papuan men spewed out a phalanx of rescuers. Schmidt raised his rifle, shot and killed three. On trial at Rabaul on the neighboring island of New Britain, Schmidt's sole defense was that he had planned to frighten the blacks and what was so bad about killing a few Papuans anyway? Old Ludwig was sentenced...
When the playoffs started last week, each of the eight professional teams in the National Hockey League had played 48 games. Sole purpose of these, aside from making money, was to eliminate the weakest team from each of the two groups of four into which the League is arbitrarily divided. The teams eliminated were the New York Rangers and the Montreal Canadiens. The other six, in the order of their standing, at the season's end were...