Word: assassinate
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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When gentle old President Paul Doumer of France was shot and killed by crazed Dr. Paul Gorgulov (TIME, May 16), the Russian assassin's 82-year-old mother performed a striking service to the Soviet State. She testified that her son was a "White Russian," not a "Red Russian" as the Paris Press was screaming...
When mad Paul Gorgulov shot France's President Paul Doumer last May, a group of newsphotographers were witnesses. They had their lenses focussed on the President to snap him as he autographed book for War veterans' benefit. The Picture of the Century-the assassination -occurred at that moment. Bearded Louis Piston, who has been photographing celebrities around Paris for 45 years, dropped his flash, swung his camera overhead, clubbed Assassin Gorgulov with it. Photographer Piston got no picture. Last week it became known that he had been elevated to the Legion of Honor. U. S. newsphotographers are notoriously...
Born. To Mme Paul Gorgulov, relict of French President Paul Doumer's assassin (TIME, May 16, et seq.); a daughter; in Paris...
...Secretary of Labor Doak had dangled a Federal judgeship before Donald Randall Richberg, railway labor lawyer and lobbyist, if he would help the Hoover Administration beat the Norris anti-injunction bill demanded by Labor. Secretary Doak hotly denied the charge as a "libel," called Senator Norris "a professional character assassin who is not to be believed on his oath." Lawyer Richberg supported the Senator's story as "absolutely accurate...
...effort to attract sympathy to his cause last week, King Carol let it be known that a "mysterious and unknown assassin" had been caught in his private car. By the week's end he had other troubles. In a crisis brought on by a League of Nations' proposal to appoint a financial controller for Rumania, the Rumanian Cabinet resigned...