Word: trapped
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...rope which he had used in 18 other hangings. Over Barrett's head he slipped a black satin hood, the handiwork of his sister-in-law. Then he walked calmly down the steps, confident that his 69th job would be without flaw. A deputy sheriff sprang the trap. Ten minutes later George W. Barrett was dead. At daybreak he was buried in Indianapolis' Holy Cross Cemetery...
Nobody knows better than Comrade Litvinoff that the Litvinoff-to-Roosevelt pledges were nothing but a trap to catch recognition and that, recognition having been caught, they became scraps of paper. When the U. S. Congress ascertained the facts, it refused to appropriate the necessary $1,100,000 for U. S. Embassy & Consular buildings in the Soviet Union. Today Ambassador Bullitt, highly persona grata in Moscow, constitutes almost the sole friendly link between Moscow and Washington. Last week Comrade Litvinoff, obviously more worried than he cared to admit by the attention Mr. Howard had called to the Soviet...
...Treasury also operates the Ritz of relief projects for artists, known as the Treasury Relief Art Project. TRAP's director is Olin Dows, a bristle-haired young socialite painter from Duchess County, N. Y. He has been given $550,000 with which to provide jobs for no more than 400 artists from relief rolls, to be chosen for artistic ability alone. Already TRAP artists look down their noses at their WPA brethren...
There General Graziani had been able to trap the forces of well-meaning but none too skillful Desta Demtu in open combat, attack them simultaneously with tanks, planes and two divisions of infantry, one white, one black. Honest Ras Desta Demtu would be an ideal Quartermaster General if Ethiopia had a modern army, but he is a poor strategist. He made the mistake of entrenching part of his troops. Under the pounding of Italian guns they fell back slowly at first, finally broke and ran. Unsupported by eye witnesses, Italians exultingly claimed that they had killed 5,000 Ethiopians, advanced...
...liquor taxes, the Company communicated with the Governor of Colorado placing in his hands all of the facts at its command. He advised the Company to communicate with the State Attorney's Office, and as a result of this step State operators and McKesson officials arranged for a "trap" on McKesson property, as a result of which a "go-between," alleged to be working in the personal interest of the discredited State official, was arrested. Immediately upon the completion of a special audit of the affairs of the Colorado branch of McKesson & Robbins, Inc., the full amount...