Word: stay
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Governor Harold Hoffman of New Jersey (who also has 13 letters in his name), has no power to pardon prisoners, but he can stay executions for as much as 90 days. That the week of Jan. 13 may come and go without Prisoner Hauptmann's paying the supreme penalty for his crime was indicated last week when Governor Hoffman declared: "If Bruno Hauptmann were to be electrocuted tonight there would still be in my mind and, I am convinced, in the minds of hundreds of thousands of people, great doubt that the Lindbergh baby murder had been solved completely...
...translator was communicated to the U. S. State Department which ordered "inquiries" in Moscow, the most that could be done since the man sentenced to be shot was no U. S. citizen. The moment this degree of U. S. interest was evinced. Russia's sensitive Dictatorship ordered a stay of execution and a brisk retrial of Hearstman Mikhailov by the Court of Appeals which altered his sentence from Death to eight years imprisonment...
...Brain Trust might have noticed one of their former colleagues proceeding in the opposite direction. The tall, bald, rangy gentleman with the glum expression was William Marion Jardine, who had deserted his books to be Coolidge Secretary of Agriculture and Hoover Minister to Egypt. After a brief stay in the Kansas State Treasurer's office, Republican Jardine was offered and accepted the presidency of the Municipal University of Wichita. (Enrollment...
...miles per hour, the storm is likely to be short and light. "This larger proportion for the lesser storms is to be expected," says Professor Brooks, "since fast air-currents usually go with fast-moving storms, which would not yield such a quantity of snow in their brief stay as the slow-moving ones would...
...story is laid in the Lake St. John region of New Brunswick, Canada, and depicts graphically the rugged French folk and bleak countryside of that region. The mental struggles of the heroine, Marie, in deciding whether to stay in her native country with her own countrymen and her father, or to go to the glamorous States with her lover form one of the main themes of the story...