Word: executioner
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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In claiming sainthood for Louis XVI as a martyr to the faith, French Catholics are undoubtedly stretching somewhat the historical version of his execution. Louis was primarily a political victim; his life was a standing menace to the security of any thoroughgoing revolutionary regime and as such could not have...
If the Pope can be convinced that Louis died in order to remain a faithful Catholic, canonization, according to yesterday's press dispatches from Paris, awaits the ill-fortuned Bourbon. Certainly complete devotion' to Catholicism and to Rome, well illustrated by his dogged resistance to the Civil Constitution, contributed not...
Sirs: Steuart H. Britt's letter in TIME of Dec. 31 is not adequately answered by your comment. Students of history should be informed that in reality Atchison was never President of the United States. Polk was President until midnight (not noon, as Mr. Britt says) of March 3...
The execution of the House Plan cannot make Harvard over; the CRIMSON does not believe that its proponents think that it can, or consider it desirable. The true university spirit of communism for the individual rather than for a series of cohesive entities is an obstacle to the success of...
When the public hears about Sing Sing Prison, at Ossining, N. Y., it is usually news of an escape or a sensational execution. But escapes are rare; only three of the 18 who have escaped since 1920 are still at large. And news of executions is sensationally inaccurate.