Word: victimization
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...excellent chance to become Ohio's first female victim of the electric chair was by no means Mrs. Hahn's only claim to distinction last week. By the time her trial ended, she had established herself to the jury's satisfaction as one of the most amazingly assiduous heroines in the history of U. S. crime...
Last week the Tennessean's Alexander revealed that three of the original kidnappers, now Tennessee businessmen, without consulting their five companions, broke their 18-year silence only to help Columnist Alexander raise money for expensive operations to save 12-year-old Truman Jr., an infantile paralysis victim. By last week the raid of 1919 had ended well for all concerned: Writer Alexander had received $1,500 from the Satevepost; 90-lb. Buddy Alexander, after two excruciating spinal operations and a blood transfusion from his father, was in a Manhattan hospital, encased in 125 pounds of plaster, grinning and beginning...
...only is the victim of a prank in such obvious bad taste apt to suffer unjustly, but the reputation of the Hygiene Department for providing accurate, constructive health information to students undergoes unwarranted defamation. It is not an easy job to build up undergraduate confidence in the University's hygiene center, but Dr. Bock has made progress in this direction. It is therefore not a laughable joke which threatens to tear down such work. Particularly in the light of the announcement today that Harvard doctors are wholeheartedly backing a movement to make medical aid more available to the general public...
Hollywood police received an alarm that Cinemactor Victor McLaglen had been kidnapped at the point of a gun in front of a filling station. The sheriff's office presently set the police right: the "kidnappers"' were deputy sheriffs, their victim Victor's brother Capt, Sidney Leopold McLaglen, 48, accused of having attempted to extort $20,000 from Millionaire-Sportsman-Photographer Phillip Mattiessen Chancellor...
...process by which a match wedged in the toe of the victim's shoe is lighted...