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...McAdoo. There Governor-elect George H. Earle stood beside a freshly-turned grave. There, too, stood Senator-elect Joseph F. Guffey, Democratic State Chairman David Lawrence, onetime Commonwealth Secretary Richard J. Beamish. Presently 10,000 mourners gathered from nearby towns, began to chant the Requiem responses in a half-dozen tongues as three obscure men were laid to rest. The dead buried, a handful of women surged around Governor-elect Earle to scream in Italian: "If you don't send those murderers to the electric chair we'll kill them ourselves." He did not understand, but later...
...well prepared as their sons for college. When Founder Brearley died in 1886 they got for headmaster, James G. Croswell, an old-school classicist from Harvard. In 28 years he set a scholarly tone which Brearley has never lost. In the select sisterhood of Manhattan's half-dozen famed private schools for girls it retains a first-rank reputation for scholarship...
...Yazoo Delta. Scovill made plates for daguerreotypes. Scovill made the Queen Anne burners for the lamps Rockefeller filled with kerosene. Scovill made time fuses, bullet jackets, shell cases in the War. And today the average U. S. citizen seldom goes from dawn to dusk without using a half-dozen Scovill products...
...agents led by Melvin Purvis, Dillinger hero near East Liverpool, Ohio. Fortnight ago, after police learned he was one of three thugs responsible for the Union Station massacre in Kansas City last year, Floyd was flushed out of an Iowa farm (TIME, Oct. 22), badly wounded, chased through a half-dozen states to his death...
...escape his obligation to pregnant Freda McKechnie. On the night of July 30 he drove with her to Harvey's Lake. Although it was raining, they slipped into their bathing suits in the automobile and went for a swim. Freda did not return home. Edwards told police a half-dozen stories of accidental death and incriminating circumstances. The last version, which he gave firmly from the witness stand last week, was that Freda had slipped while stepping from the dock into a rowboat, had cracked her head on the boat. Fearing she was dead, he hit her with his blackjack...