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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Fortnight ago, Texas's Governor Dan Moody regretfully told a London newsman, interviewing him over the trans-Atlantic telephone, how mobbers at Sherman had killed Convict George Hughes, 41, Negro, how they had dragged his body about town, strung it from a tree, doused it in gasoline, burned it as a warning in the Negro quarter...
Next morning Dr. Work gave political punsters a chance to refer to logrolling when he stepped on an infirm tree bole, was twirled upside down and doused in the cold stream...
Died. James Oliver Curwood, 19, namesake son of the late novelist (The Courage of Captain Plum, Philip Steele of the Royal Mounted, God's Country and the Woman, Nomads of the North); of a broken neck, a fractured skull; when his airplane hit a tree at Owosso, Mich...
...Chicago, Earl Holmes prepared to marry Anne Larsen, sweetheart of Frank Fabarula, gangster. Fabarula, with two cronies, one a twice imprisoned policeman, kidnaped Holmes, tried to hang him to a tree. Three law-abiding policemen stopped them...
Author Maugham has written 18 novels, books of short stories, 24 plays. Some of them: Ashenden, or the British Agent, The Casuarina Tree, The Moon and Sixpence, Mrs, Craddock, Of Human Bondage, On a Chinese Screen, The Trembling of a Leaf; (plays) The Circle, East of Suez, The Letter, The Sacred Flame, Rain...