Word: assassinate
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Your article Races (TIME, April 23, p. 9) you quote, probably the 57th time, "Tom-Tom Heflin who mortally hates and fears the Roman Pope." Senator Heflin is no coward and "fears" no one, unless it be some cowardly assassin, a religious fanatic. Heflin is to be congratulated in having the "Guts" to stand up and swat the "Monster," the enemy of real Americanism. Of course our yellow, lying, subsidized sheets and journalistic prostitutes will jibe and howl when Heflin makes a speech. We need several more like him in our U. S. Senate...
Seemingly the bomb was fitted with a clock work mechanism timed to explode at the instant when His Majesty was scheduled to pass. Kings, however, are too experienced to risk their lives by keeping to a time table known to every assassin. Therefore His Majesty was a good ten minutes motor ride distant when the bomb exploded. Though prudent, he is no coward. "Drive on," he said with compressed lips when told of the explosion, "Keep to the original route, through the Piazza Giulio Cesare...
Father Tacchi-Venturi, upon raising his eyes from his papers, saw a pale, demented face and a hand which grasped a slender, dagger-like paper knife. Quick, the assassin sprang. Quicker, the Jesuit dodged. As a result the knife barely lacerated the neck skin of Father Tacchi-Venturi. Meanwhile the sleepy porter had valorously collared Signor De Angelis...
Died. Wilson D. Kenzie, 83, who on April 14, 1865, aged 21, saw President Abraham Lincoln assassinated, who later with a party of soldiers went in hot pursuit of Assassin John Wilkes Booth; at Baltimore...
...fired through the windshield at the aged president. Smiles on the faces of policemen faded instantly. Before the assailant could pull the trigger twice a dozen strong arms of the law had siezed him. Soldiers, alarmed by the shot, became rigid, threw a cordon around the would-be assassin to prevent his being torn asunder by the infuriated...