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Both Calm. Dictator Mussolini and his would-be assassin both retained a glacial calm. The Premier sat quietly in his car and received an ovation with immobile features while his chauffeur changed a tire punctured by a splinter from the bomb...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: ITALY: Bomb | 9/20/1926 | See Source »

...Would-be-Assassin Lucetti, dragged by the police from a mob which was trying to lynch him, said quietly: "I am an anarchist. I came from Paris to kill Mussolini. I was born in Italy. I have no accomplices...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: ITALY: Bomb | 9/20/1926 | See Source »

Last week the Premier's would-be-assassin, the Hon. Violet Albina Gibson, sister of Baron Ashbourne, known since childhood by her family to have been of unsound mind but never restrained by them, was pronounced by the Italian alienists, "a dangerous homicidal paranoiac who should be permanently held in an insane asylum...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: ITALY: Paranoiac | 8/16/1926 | See Source »

...Would-be-assassin Domingo Masachs Torrent, markedly neurasthenic, did not notice in the excitement of shouting, "Down with you, tyrant!" a secret service car which swooped upon him, ran him down, broke...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: SPAIN: Leg Broken | 8/9/1926 | See Source »

Their mother and the Vails found out as soon as they reached the garage. . . . Evidently an assassin, lurking behind the shelter of a rose bush, loosed deadly fire just as Mellett was shutting the doors. One of the slugs had gone in behind his ear, causing instant death...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: Corruption | 7/26/1926 | See Source »

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