Word: arming
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Havana Leopoldo Fernandez Ros strolled to the corner with a friend to get a taxi. Senor Ros, once teacher of geography and history in the Havana High School, newspaper director and censor, was well known as organizer of President Machado's ruffianly strong-arm squad, the "Partida de la Porra" (Party of the Bludgeon). What he got was no taxi. A green automobile swung in to the curb. Somebody fired both barrels of a sawed-off shotgun. Sixteen slugs plowed through his chest, killed him instantly. One of the first at the scene of the assassination was Brigadier Antonio...
...Stephen Vincent Benét outgrew ''William Rose Benét's Younger Brother" with the publication of John Brown's Body. In the middle of a show room of portrait heads and animal studies stretched a heroic nude rising from the ground on one arm, entitled Rising Figure. Critics hailed it as one of the most important pieces of sculpture in years, a tie with William Zorach's Spirit of the Dance (banned by Roxy, restored last week to Radio City's Music Hall) as the most interesting statue of the year. Sculptor...
...called to the chauffeur to stop. "I saw Mayor Cermak being carried. . . . He was alive, but I didn't think he was going to last. I put my left arm around him and my hand on his pulse, but I couldn't find any pulse...
...smeared President Harding with mock sympathy. He tweaked and twitted President Coolidge. He first put in circulation the "dammed, drained and ditched" joke on Engineer Hoover. But his gibes were always in loud good humor and after a particularly spirited attack he would stroll off to a ball game arm-in-arm with Republican Leader Watson. Always the smart politician. Democrat Harrison played close to the Brown Derby in 1928, was an early passenger on the Roosevelt bandwagon...
...Ottokar Brandt (Siegfried Rumann of Grand Hotel), a great bear of a man whose crippled left arm once played a gifted violin, has taught his daughter all he knows of music. Now she must go to Vienna. During the midyear vacation a scholarship is vacated. It may be Elsa's chance. When she fails to get it she enlists the sympathy and warm admiration of Harry Conway. They fall in love, although they try to control it. "It's surprising," says Elsa, with a wry twist of the mouth, "the things we can control...