Word: whole
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...sent to a reform school for torturing little children. Upon his release a little boy was cruelly murdered, then a little girl. On April 22, 1874 Horace Miller, 10, was found dead in an unspeakable condition. Pomeroy, then 15, was arrested, tried, sentenced to be hanged. The whole East seethed with outrage against his sadism. After many a delay Governor Rice, because of his youth, commuted the sentence to life imprisonment. On Sept. 7, 1876 Pomeroy entered Charlestown Prison to pay a penalty not yet finished. A violent prisoner, always attempting escape, he was moved to Concord...
...Muehlebach Hotel room, kept in touch with New York and Washington by long distance telephone, whispered important things to onetime Governor James Putnam Goodrich of Indiana, behaved in a manner which led many to suppose that he was putting over the Hoover nomination singlehanded, was preparing to direct the whole Hoover campaign. Such was not the case in 1928, but it may be in 1932. Last week, betting in the capital was 2-1 that this affable "whitecollar" politician from the South would become chairman of the Republican National Committee with the job of drivng the G.O.P. steamroller...
Only last week did secretive Dictator Primo de Rivera reveal how he had staged the whole diplomatic orgy without cost to the Spanish Treasury. At the time of the League session, he reminded, the Spanish Post Office had issued a special, limited series of "commemorative stamps. Up to last week, he declared, the sale of these bits of paper to philatelists abroad has already brought in more money than it cost to champagne and caviar thoroughly the statesmen of the League...
...German bosses with talk of the profits they could make electrifying Ireland's Shannon. First in the field for his firm with ideas and plans, smart Dr. T. A. McLaughlin was able to sell the Free State Government his idea, is now actively in charge of the whole $35.000,000 development...
...Poincaré's close colleague as Minister of Interior, a post which the Radical-Socialists especially covet. 3) The factions of the Right appeared to be in solid phalanx behind a demand that M. Tardieu should not only be retained but advanced to Finance Minister. 4) The whole Chamber was in an ugly mood because, just prior to M. Poincaré's resignation, the government with high-handed cloture put through a motion adjourning Parliament until autumn. This was done to throttle possibly mischievous polemics on the newly ratified debt settlement. But before M. Briand could form a cabinet he was obliged...