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Adjusted Service Compensation Certificates are in the nature of endowment insurance policies payable 20 years after application or upon death. Current cash-equivalent of these certificates could probably be arrived at. But speedy execution of Subscriber Case's idea would require a special session of Congress to say nothing...
Navy officers of high, resplendent rank last week congregated in Secretary Charles Francis Adams' office for a formal ceremony. Their centre of interest: the old, white-mustachioed face of Admiral Charles Frederick Hughes, Chief of Operations, No. i naval officer in the U. S. service. He, not due to retire...
They had bootlegged meat, fowl, milk, cheese, potatoes, eggs. To obtain these edibles they had forged government food cards wholesale. Guilty of "private trading," they had incurred what Soviet citizens call "the highest measure of social defense": execution.
Though she lost her point, Jeritza won San Francisco for her own. The audience jamming Civic Auditorium sat in rapt attention as they saw her transformed from a querulous princess intrigued by a captive prophet into a voluptuous animal crying brutally for the love, the body, the life of Jochanaan...
Strapped to four chairs the condemned were set up with their backs to a firing squad which proceeded to aim at the bases of their spines. Present were General Guido Cristini, President of the Facist Supreme Special Tribunal for the Defense of the State, and his fellow judges. This was...