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Last week the Mexican presidential campaign broke out in bloody revolt and boded well to be settled on the battlefields rather than in the ballot boxes. As the week wore on the summary executions of one of the two opposition candidates and many supporting generals seemed to hold promise of...
The Fascist journals of Italy expressed matter-of-fact approval, tinged with scorn for the inefficiency which delayed the execution for seven years.
The day after the Sacco-Vanzetti execution the Evening Graphic, gum-chewers' sheetlet published in Manhattan by Bernarr Macfadden, blazed on the newsstands with a huge headline:
Delving within, palpitating readers found the story of the execution by one Jack Grey, Graphic reporter.
A decidedly graphic description. Gullible readers devoured it. Careful readers laughed, for it was a fact, published in newspapers throughout the land, that W. E. Playfair of the Associated Press was the only newspaperman permitted in the death house to view the execution.