Word: assassinate
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...Scriabine, Lenin's was Ulyanov and Stalin's is Dzhugashvili (pronounced "zoo-gash-vee-lee"). Soviet leaders are proud of their violent, revolutionary records which the Tsarist police could only class as criminal. Stalin, many times a bank robber (to get funds for the Party) and assassin of Tsarist officials, is especially proud of his alias Stalin, meaning "Steel...
...looking at Otto as at least a possible last resort to stop the spread of Nazism southward from Germany. What, King Victor Emanuel asked, of that potent little Nazi-stopper, Austria's Chancellor Engelbert Dollfuss who emerged nearly intact last fortnight from a point-blank meeting with an assassin? Zita produced the strange new argument of Austrian Royalists: If Dollfuss were killed, there is no second Dollfuss to take his place. If her son, King-Emperor Otto, were killed, a replacement would be fixed by the law of succession...
...well Guy Davin who murdered the U. S. ne'er-do-well Richard Wall for $300; a multitude of arch-crooks, killers and underworld rabble. Fortune's fool was there too, a murderer named Boyer who was to have been executed the morning after an assassin killed France's President Paul Doumer (TIME, May 16, 1932). On the technicality that Boyer thus lost his last-minute chance of pardon, his sentence was automatically commuted to life imprisonment...
...such men as Mascaro, Vasco Bello, Arsenic Ortix, Cartaya and others of the same type, as his most confidential councilors and advisers, the explanation may be easily seen: of what might otherwise seem quite incompatible'. For why should a 33rd degree Mason align himself with a 44th degree assassin of such insatiable cruelty as Ortiz bristles with and always manifests...
...serious" about wanting to dicker. Meanwhile in the evacuated territory north of Tientsin the Chinese soldiers strutted like heroes for their brief moment.* Scamp Shot. A hint of Japan's real intentions in China exploded last week in Peiping's Grand Hotel des Wagon-Lits. An assassin shot and gravely wounded that thoroughgoing scamp General Chang Ching-yao, onetime military governor of Hunan Province. Police announced that Chang's mission was to set up a monarchy in northern China with Japanese money. Monarch was to be hollow-eyed Henry Pu Yi. now puppet chief of puppet Manchukuo...