Word: executioner
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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"The evidence clearly shows that the negotiations preceding the execution of the lease (on the Teapot reserve) were actively, earnestly and completely participated in, if not dominated by, the Secretary of the Navy and his designated representative of that department, Admiral [J. K.] Robison.
Only three weeks previously, Federal Judge Paul J. McCormick, Los Angeles, before whom was tried a similar case?the Government trying to cancel the lease of Naval Oil Reserve No. 1 (known as Elk Hills) to the Doheny interests?had rendered his decision (TIME, June 8). He had decided that...
What is this Institute? It is not known yet. It is not known yet. On July 1, it comes into being for the first time. Two years ago, the Y. M. C. A. conceived the idea, in imitation of the Pan-Pacific Union, a local organization in Hawaii, but turned...
Little more than 338 years after the execution of Mary Queen of Scots** at Fotheringhay Castle, Ainsworth Mitchell, Home Office criminologist, came to the conclusion that the letters written to Babington expressing approval of a plot to assassinate Queen Elizabeth were not written by Mary but by her secretary and...
The Phillips Brooks House hand-book for Freshmen, excellent though it is in design and execution, gives no hints for hot weather. In extreme cases, where a cool retreat in which to study is imperative, the harassed undergraduate may take a tip from the Irish ditch digger's wife, who...