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When the Act was passed, one of the main talking points of its partisans was the noble, self-sacrificing clause that swept profitable American shipping from the war zones. Many shipping companies lobbied desperately against this provision, but Congress spurned what it considered a mere selfish plea, and proudly passed...
Died. Ellis Howard Parker, 68, ill-famed Lindbergh case detective, who went to jail for conspiring to kidnap Attorney Paul H. Wendel and extorting from him a subsequently repudiated confession which postponed the execution of Bruno Richard Hauptmann (see p. 38) ; of brain tumor; in the Federal penitentiary, Lewisburg, Pa...
It's a pleasure to see Montgomery doing something besides his usual playboy roles. Those who know the star always have claimed that he could do a real job if the studio would only give him a chance. The critics confirmed this in their reviews of "Night Must Fall" but...
>Stalin had personally ordered the execution of a supply officer who let the Finns cut his lines.
...execution chamber at Sing Sing prison, on a fine June morning in 1904, a lanky, 30-year-old electrician named Robert Greene Elliott (son of a New York farmer who had intended him for the Methodist ministry) was testing current and equipment. With him was Executioner Davis. "Bob," said Davis casually, "I want you to throw the switch on one of the fellows this morning." Young Elliott turned hollow inside. "I've got to train two men to be executioners," Davis explained rapidly...