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The possibilities for the smart faculty member with a little business sense were innumerable. Although no professors are to be found who will confess to taking advantage of this bounty, it is assumed that their wives were quick to see the opportunities which lay in such a transaction. With a...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: THE CRIME | 4/21/1934 | See Source »

American the ballet was in theme rather than execution. The theme was the construction of the two railroads, the Union and the Central Pacific, which Leland Stanford's ill-aimed blow symbolically joined together. But both music and choreography-breath and flesh of any ballet-were the work of...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Union Pacific | 4/16/1934 | See Source »

The substance of "Come in at the Door: is woven around the effect, on the life of a sensitive and intelligent man, of witnessing as a child the horrible execution of a negro who in a fit of madness had beaten out the brains of a helpless dwarf. That the...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: CRIMSON BOOKSHELF | 3/20/1934 | See Source »

Last week the Mississippi Legislature moved to give Father Collins his reward. By a vote of 19 to 16 the Senate passed a bill authorizing the county sheriff to appoint him hangman at the execution of the Negroes this week. The Senator who introduced it explained that the bill was...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: RACES: Hernando Hangman | 3/19/1934 | See Source »

In Michigan City, Ind., night before his execution Uxoricide Harvey Edwards slashed his wrists, started to bleed to death. Prison physicians gave him blood transfusions, worked 22 hours to save his life. Saved, Harvey Edwards was successfully electrocuted.

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Miscellany, Mar. 19, 1934 | 3/19/1934 | See Source »

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