Word: whether
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Donnell thought he had "The Mad Butcher of Kingsbury Run" (TIME, July 17). When ex-Butcher Dolezal told first one story and then another about how he disposed of his supposed victim's head, worried authorities reduced the charge against him from murder to manslaughter, wondered whether they had a simple lunatic instead of a killer. Last fortnight Frank Dolezal hanged himself in his cell with a towel. Last week Clevelanders wondered whether another murder or another arrest would tell them that Sheriff O'Donnell had yet to nab the Butcher...
...urgent war to keep Poland from falling apart. General Smigly-Rydz's main concern was not whether it was to be a world war or a local war, whether casualties were to be ten or 10,000,000. What was important was that Poland, which had so often divided, should not divide again...
...Government sat there for two full days and waited until it should suit the Polish Government at last to send us a man with full powers. By last night they had not sent a plenipotentiary but they let us know through their Ambassador they were now contemplating whether and how far they were able to consider British proposals. . . . If it was possible to make the German Reich and its head of state take this . . . then the German nation would not deserve anything better than to disappear from the stage. . . . I have decided to speak to the Poles in the same...
...Associated Actors & Artistes of America). Between them, white-collar A. A. A. A. and no-collar I. A. T. S. E. are in a position to start such a strike as the U. S. entertainment industry has never experienced, and all summer it has been touch-&-go whether their long-simmering jurisdictional disputes could be settled without war. Last week came the crisis all showfolk have been dreading...
...York and Boston: On the docks lay few cargoes of foodstuffs, machinery, tools, waiting to be picked up. Whether ships would come for future contracts no exporter would venture to predict. For the first time since 1918 war risk insurance on U. S. vessels had doubled, tripled...