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The significance of burly, red-faced Tom McKeown's defeat was that his successor is likely to be unique among House characters in the next Congress. Winner of the Democratic nomination was Judge "P. L." Gassaway whose first name is, though few Oklahomans know it, Percy. Judge Gassaway has...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: POLITICAL NOTES: Oklahoma Outs | 8/6/1934 | See Source »

The judge has refused to grant any more nonsensical extensions. He has done all he can to reduce the trial to common sense. The rest is part of our delightful set-up of criminal justice. There is every reason to believe that this case is conclusive enough to result in...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: MILLENIUM | 4/26/1934 | See Source »

8) Was Dutchman van der Lubbe put to death: 1) by having his head chopped off with a battle ax? 2 ) by electrocution? 3) by garroting? 4) by guillotining? 5) by lethal gas? or 6) by hanging? (P-19).

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Quiz, Jan. 22, 1934 | 1/22/1934 | See Source »

Picture Snatcher (Warner) is a vulgar but generally funny collection of black outs. They concern a young racketeer (James Cagney) who finds to his endless delight that he cannot be put in jail for stealing pictures for the tabloids. He also finds that his brother journalists are smart but no...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The New Pictures: May 15, 1933 | 5/15/1933 | See Source »

In the face of these three phobias against the colored race, the Semites, and the Communists, it is unreasonable to expect anything good to come out of Alabama. Barring the very improbable Constitutional change necessary to remove the administration of capital crimes from local areas to Federal control, the Scottsboro...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: PRIDE OF THE SOUTH | 4/11/1933 | See Source »

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