Word: assassination
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...assassin, one Goro Hishinuma, did not break down under a police third degree. This was not strange. Now in progress is a series of assassinations about which the Tokyo police undoubtedly do not want to learn too much. One by one Japan's men-of-peace-and-goodwill have fallen, done to death by assassins...
...next revealed that Dr. Dan had been one of the Japanese financiers who recently called War Minister Araki on the carpet and cautioned him about Shanghai spendings. The assassin's pistol proved to be a Browning (Japanese navy type) exactly similar to the Browning which killed Japan's No. 2 Peace Man Inouye. The assassin of that third Peace Man who was the first to fall, Premier Hamaguchi, had not been brought to trial up to last week, his case having been delayed 16 months...
...Since then he has roamed over half the world chopping logs, working in restaurants, printshops. He was employed in a Hartford tire factory when he began to write his first short stories, invariably waste-paper-basketed when they were finished. Widely-acclaimed books followed: The Informer, Mr. Gilhooley, The Assassin, The Mountain Tavern, The House of Gold, The Return of the Brute, Two Years...
...every correspondent in Tokyo knows, the present Government of fox-bearded Premier ("Old Fox") Inukai is heavily dependent on Japan's various supernationalistic secret societies. It did not, take the police long to discover that Mr. Inouye's pale little assassin was a member of a society known as the Seisanto which in turn is an offshoot of the formidable Kosuikai or Black Dragon Society, closely allied to the War Party of Premier Inukai...
...tradition Assassin Booth, as he leaped from Lincoln's box to the stage, cried "Sic Semper Tyrannis." One E. V. McGinnis of St. Louis whose great grandfather was Booth's physician and whose grandfather was sitting in the Ford's Theatre audience on the evening of April 14, 1865, claims that what Booth really said was: "I'm sick?send for McGinnis...