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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Infuriated Shermanites attacked and burned the courthouse with the result that Prisoner Hughes suffocated to death in a steel vault in the county clerk's office. From the vault his limp body was yanked out and paraded around town in a motor truck before being strung to a tree. A drugstore was ransacked for boxes, counters, sample cases to build a fire beneath the corpse. Cooked by the flames, the muscles of George Hughes's arms and legs twisted themselves up into the knots Isamu Noguchi eternally preserved in Death...
Purchasers of this gaudy red volume will have within one set of covers such sensational camera trophies as: Ruth Snyder squirming in the electric chair; the slanting deck of the sinking S. S. Vestris; Leo Frank swinging from a Georgia tree; the "Rolphing" at San Jose; a Nebraska Negro crisply incinerated; Chicago's St. Valentine's Day Massacre; William Warnecke's famed shot of Mayor Gaynor wounded; public executions in the Chinese manner (strangulation), the French manner (guillotine), the Mexican manner (shooting), the Persian manner (interment), the Abyssinian manner (dismemberment), the Japanese manner (decapitation), the British manner...
...defense counsel. She was Mrs. Mary Belle Spencer, crusading Chicago attorney. Last year gaunt white-haired Mrs. Spencer made news by having Dancer Sally Rand arrested for indecent exposure. Mrs. Spencer has brought up two young daughters on a strictly self-expressionistic plan. Once, when they threw their Christmas tree out a window, their mother recalls that "it was hard not to say anything. But I didn't even turn my head." (TIME, Sept...
...representational U. S. art is Iowa's chubby, soft-spoken Grant Wood? Like Benton, Grant Wood studied in France, turned out his share of Blue Vase, Sorrento, House in Montmartre, Breton Market. But in 1929 he radically changed his style. From his palette issued a series of rolling, tree-dotted Iowa fields done in a flat, smooth manner. His landscape of West Branch, Iowa (FORTUNE, Aug. 1932) got the birthplace of Herbert Hoover almost as much public attention as the infrequent visits of that President. Wood's credo: U. S. art suffers from a "Colonial attitude" to Europe, a feeling...
...Hello," she called. "I didn't know you were back. The last I heard you had fallen out of a tree in Uvalde." The little man's blue eyes twinkled. "Mrs. Roosevelt," said Vice President Garner, "I didn't hurt myself. I jumped from a limb and misjudged the distance to the ground...